My friend Becky from Hawaii sent me these nice cards of the Arizona Memorial.
The USS Arizona Memorial, located
at Pearl Harbour in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of
1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December
1941 by Japanese imperial forces and commemorates the events of that
day. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the island of Oʻahu was the
action that led to the United States' direct involvement in World War II.
The memorial, built in
1962, is visited by more than one million people annually.[1] Accessible only by boat, it straddles the
sunken hull of the battleship without touching it. Historical information about
the attack, shuttle boats to and from the memorial, and general visitor
services are available at the associated USS Arizona Memorial
Visitor Center, which opened in 1980 and is operated by the National Park
Service. The sunken remains of the
battleship were declared a National Historic Landmark on 5 May 1989.
