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Originally Posted by Snake Eyes
I had three great uncles that survived Pearl Harbor. Two of them survived the rest of the war. The last one died last year, buried with three of his brothers at Arlington. I've never been to the USS Arizona Memorial, but I'd like to visit.
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I lived in Hawaii from 1975-1980 (my stepfather was stationed at Kaneohe, and then left us there while he went on float and then was transferred to Japan). Places like the Arizona Memorial, the Punchbowl, some places at Ft Shafter and Ford Island -- you can feel the ghosts. You find you can't talk in much more than a soft voice, and you fight to keep the tears down. It's like the feeling you get at Arlington and the Unknown Soldier Memorial or the Ft Sam Houston Cemetery or the Vietnam Memorial -- almost spooky.