5/25/2020

3 Responses to “Memorial Day”

1. I just posted this on the open thread, but it is more appropriate here.

   Undersea explorers find wreck of USS Nevada, the ship that almost escaped Pearl Harbor
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   The USS Nevada raced to escape the unfolding catastrophe of Dec. 7, 1941. “Out of this pall came a sight so incredible that its viewers could not have been more dumbfounded had it been the legendary Flying Dutchman,” historian Gordon W. Prange wrote.

   Earlier this month, undersea explorers announced they had found the wreck of the famous Nevada: It had failed to make good its escape at Pearl Harbor, but it had survived, was repaired and returned to sea to serve out World War II.
   It had been found in 15,000 feet of water, purposely sunk by the Navy in 1948 after a career that spanned three decades of service, from World War I to the atomic bomb.

   The Nevada had fought on D-Day in 1944 off Normandy and, reequipped with guns from the shattered Arizona and USS Oklahoma, fought again at the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the Pacific. After the war it had been painted orange and used as a test ship at the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb detonations in 1946.

   The Nevada survived again, but in 1948 the vessel, possibly still radioactive, was sunk by naval guns, explosives and torpedoes 65 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, said maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado, of SEARCH Inc., one of two firms that found the wreck in April.
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   Rip Murdock (32617c) — 5/25/2020 @ 12:49 pm

   
   

2. We will not have to memorialize military personal killed in the middle east if we don’t send them their.

   asset (9c5538) — 5/25/2020 @ 2:24 pm

   
   

3. For future Memorial Days, I recommend that you take some time to read from Tom Brokaw’s “The Greatest Generation” and reflect on America today.

   John B Boddie (f44786) — 5/26/2020 @ 9:19 am