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Grumpy Old Guy

(4,274 posts) Wed Dec 7, 2022, 12:32 PM Dec 2022

More images from our visit to the Arizona Memorial.

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More images from our visit to the Arizona Memorial. (Original Post) Grumpy Old Guy Dec 2022 OP

K&R Doc Sportello Dec 2022 #1

It is the names that get you. ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2022 #2

Yes, that's so true. Diamond_Dog Dec 2022 #3

Some names on the wall in DC I knew. ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2022 #5

Same here. Diamond_Dog Dec 2022 #6

And they're still there. Grumpy Old Guy Dec 2022 #4

That's a lot of names 2,403 people FirstLight Dec 2022 #7

Doc Sportello

(7,964 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to Grumpy Old Guy (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 12:51 PM

Dec 2022

Thanks for posting.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,761 posts)

2. It is the names that get you.

Reply to Grumpy Old Guy (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 12:55 PM

Dec 2022

Just like when paying respects at the Vietnam Memorial. These were once living and breathing human beings whose deaths were not in vain.

Diamond_Dog

(40,239 posts)

3. Yes, that's so true.

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 01:02 PM

Dec 2022

I have never been to see this memorial but I have been to the Vietnam Wall and it made me tear up, just seeing all those names.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,761 posts)

5. Some names on the wall in DC I knew.

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 01:14 PM

Dec 2022

Neighborhood boys who went over and did not come home alive or came back forever affected by their experience.

Diamond_Dog

(40,239 posts)

6. Same here.

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 01:20 PM

Dec 2022

Grumpy Old Guy

(4,274 posts)

4. And they're still there.

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 01:13 PM

Dec 2022

Many of them are still entombed beneath the memorial.

FirstLight

(15,771 posts)

7. That's a lot of names 2,403 people

Reply to Grumpy Old Guy (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 03:59 PM

Dec 2022

68 civilians, and 19 ships, 8 battleships. (I just looked it up.) I didn't even know it was that many people or ships! Don't think we covered it at all in History class. what a shame.

Ironically, today would be my 22 anniversary with my ex. Getting married on Pearl Harbor Day should have been a sign... oops.

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