Continued from December 29, 2016.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama rode a small boat to the white USS Arizona Memorial building in the harbor that sits over the stricken battleship. There the remains of 1,177 sailors and Marines lie entombed for the ages.
Abe laid a wreath to honor the dead.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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