The trip to the Arizona is FREE starting with a documentary style film introducing the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbour, the events on the 7th Dec 1941 and the immediate after effects. It is a moving film and several people are watery eyed by the end…
As the film ends we are left in silence for a couple of minutes before anyone considers moving out towards the ferry to take us to the memorial.
Once settled into place on the ferry we are shuttled over to the pearl white island of concrete situated directly over the resting place of 1177 souls. It is a fundamentally moving experience with both American and Japanese visitors paying their respects to the men who died that day in the moment that the on-board magazine exploded. The remains of the Arizona can clearly be seen below the surface of the water and small amounts of oil continue to leak out from her…
It is a simple and well designed tribute paying respect to the crew who died on that fateful day. I found it a moving experience.
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