{"id":60053,"date":"2015-05-27T18:18:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T22:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60053"},"modified":"2015-05-27T18:18:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T22:18:54","slug":"uss-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60053","title":{"rendered":"USS Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been there<a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/breaking\/305226531.html?id=305226531\"> this will be of interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext article-important\"><em>&#8220;The USS Arizona Memorial is closed to visitors Wednesday morning after a tug boat collided with the memorial\u2019s dock, making it \u201cnot safe for people to land there,\u201d a spokeswoman said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext article-important\"><em>A tug boat maneuvering the USNS Mercy hospital ship collided with the memorial\u2019s mooring dock, said spokeswoman Abby Wines.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext article-important\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pearl-harbor.com\/arizona\/arizona.html\">The USS Arizona is a remarkable place.<\/a>\u00a0 Just maybe more so for Sailors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext article-important\"><em>&#8220;<span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">Arizona was the most heavily damaged of all the vessels in Battleship Row, suffering three near-misses and four direct-hits from 800-kg bombs dropped by high-altitude Kates. The last bomb to strike her penetrated her deck starboard of turret two and detonated within a 14-inch powder magazine. The resulting massive explosion broke the ship in two forward of turret one, collapsed her forecastle decks, and created such a cavity that her forward turrets and conning tower fell thirty feet into her hull. <\/span>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext article-important\">We visited there several times, The Wife and I. The ship was still leaking oil in the late 70&#8217;s when we lived on Oahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext article-important\">I actually visited it once on the way to the Tonkin Gulf if memory serves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storytext article-important\">There are names at the memorial, and you can look down, if the light is right, you can imagine those minutes our shipmates went through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been there this will be of interest. &#8220;The USS Arizona Memorial is closed &hellip; <a title=\"USS Arizona\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60053\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Arizona<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}