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Let us never forget
- Thread starter Fred J
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mike in co
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off topic, but
there is a memorial OVER the USS Arizona today.
when i lived on Ford Island( in the middle of pearl harbor) there was no memorial.
every morning a sailor took a small boat out to the hulk, a portion of which is above water..thus not decommisioned,
and raised the flag at 8am.
my father was head of the boat shop that assigned this task everyday.
on a few days, i would go with my dad to work, get on the small boat with the sailor and motor out to the Arizona,
and promptly at 8 am,WE would raise the flag on the Arizona.
today the flag is raised from the memorial, not from the ship( the flag pole extends thru the memorial, down to the ship).
i would est that i am the last person alive to have raised the flag FROM THE ARIZONA.
(1954 when i was 6..just before first grade)
it still leaks desiel fuel today.
mike in co
there is a memorial OVER the USS Arizona today.
when i lived on Ford Island( in the middle of pearl harbor) there was no memorial.
every morning a sailor took a small boat out to the hulk, a portion of which is above water..thus not decommisioned,
and raised the flag at 8am.
my father was head of the boat shop that assigned this task everyday.
on a few days, i would go with my dad to work, get on the small boat with the sailor and motor out to the Arizona,
and promptly at 8 am,WE would raise the flag on the Arizona.
today the flag is raised from the memorial, not from the ship( the flag pole extends thru the memorial, down to the ship).
i would est that i am the last person alive to have raised the flag FROM THE ARIZONA.
(1954 when i was 6..just before first grade)
it still leaks desiel fuel today.
mike in co
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Member
Thanks Mike, very interesting.
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