The USS Arizona continued to blaze long after the attack was over.
USS Arizona - 10 December 1941
USS Arizona, May 18, 1942. View from Main Mast. Bow projecting from water - forward
5 October 1942 - Removal of ammunition aft. #4 turret handling room (D-411) looking aft on the port side, showing leakage through water shed on main deck.
All photos USN.
MEMORIAL TO THE U.S.S. ARIZONA
Beneath the waves, upon the sands,
down fathoms in the deep,
sunken men, in silent ships,
find refuge fast asleep,
exempted from
the challenge of,
victory or defeat ...
where flesh and steel rest as one,
beyond the reaches of conceit.
Beneath a mirror of twinkling light,
upon a brilliant sea,
gallant men in stalwart ships,
on a voyage not to be,
wait at their posts, in eternal patience,
without anxiety;
In a world of liquid echos and muted hostility,
where a delicate lace of ocean life
adorns the mighty guns
and consumes their awesome appearance
in the filtered light of the sun.
Glen Clay Booher
Copyright 1986
A MESSAGE TO THE VISITOR
The sacrifice of death cannot be sealed into antiquity by the date on a calendar, for it is ongoing, passing through all generations on its way to the end of time!
Please remember that as the last visitor leaves the memorial at the end of this day, over eleven hundred men must remain behind to sacrifice yet another evening, having made but one more days payment to eternity!
They ask for nothing but your remembrance from their place of silence beneath the waves, as darkness again falls over them, their dreams and their ship!
to all those not only lost on that day, but throughout WW2 as well.
