Remember

Even though it was before my time I always remember.  Had a local family that lived just 15 miles south of me and there was only 3 boys in his family.  All 3 served on the Arizona,  and he was the only survivor of the 3.  He has passed now but he would come into a repair shop that I worked my way through college in and I asked him if he had ever went back and visited the Arizona memorial, he simply said "no I have no desire to ever return to that place"  Walter was his name his brothers that are forever entombed in the Arizona were Marvin and Wes Becker.

Brothers on the USS Arizona

• There were a total of 79 individual brothers, of which 63 died as a result of the attack. Of the 38 sets of brothers on the USS Arizona, 23 sets were lost.
• Of the 63 brothers who died, only four were recovered and identified: George Bromley, Donald and Joseph Lakin, and Gordon Shive. The remaining 59 brothers remain unaccounted for.
• There were three sets of three brothers: the Beckers, the Dohertys, and the Murdocks. One from each set survived.
• The Warriners were the only set of USS Arizona brothers to survive the attack. Kenneth was training at Fleet Signal School in San Diego, California, although still assigned to the USS Arizona. Russell was wounded (badly burned), but survived.

Dusty

caledonian wrote: Do you know the US Navy fired the first shot at Pearl Harbor that morning when they sank a Japanese midget submarine outside the channel into the harbor? It was reported up the chain of command but ignored. Also the radar sighting of the aircraft approaching was reported but ignored. Our troops on duty were doing their job. Their commanders let them down.

   Don't want to start a war of words but,,, all them commanders etc that "missed" all the signals prolly wount up in the current cia and fbi,,,,,????

 Chit,,I'm outa here,,,,