Pearl Harbor veteran's interment to be last on sunken USS Arizona
Of the 1,177 USS Arizona sailors and Marines killed at Pearl Harbor, more than 900 could not be recovered and remain entombed on the ship, which sank in nine minutes. A memorial built in 1962 sits above the wreckage.
Loved ones will stand on the USS Arizona Memorial's dock and hand an urn to scuba divers in the water. The divers will guide the container to the barnacled wreckage and carefully place it inside.Daniel Martinez, chief historian for the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, said the Arizona ceremony honors those who survived the bombing while also offering a reminder of the many lives cut short because of it.
He tried to get off the ship as fast as he could, but he couldn’t jump because the oil leaking into the water below was on fire.
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