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Thanks, Dan.
I have been on the Arizona Memorial many times, and it is always a reverent and solemn experience. Over 1,000 dead Americans under your feet, and she is still leaking oil from her bunkers to put a rainbow sheen on the surface. I am always surprised at the numbers of Japanese tourists that flock there. You would think that shame would keep them away, but I guess that they don't teach that there anymore.
Our Quad at Schofield Barracks in the 25th ID still had bullet holes in the exterior walls from Japanese planes' strafing attacks.
RIP, brothers.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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