USS ARIZONA Marine Remembrance At Pearl Harbor
UPDATE: A couple
of years ago, I was the Operations Officer for the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, on the waterfront between the USS ARIZONA
and the USS BOWFIN. The Commandant of the Marine Corps was the featured speaker at the dedication of the USS ARIZONA Marine
Remembrance, 10 November 2006. The National Park Service, which administers the USS ARIZONA Memorial is renovating all of
Halawa Landing, the site of the Marine Remembrance. The Regional Director of the Natl Park Service Western Region, Jon Jarvis,
stated on the local TV news that the Marine Remembrance would be removed. I challenged him on that statement and convinced
him that would not happen without a fight. I passed the word to Jack Cunningham (Americans Working Together), who in turn
asked his readership to email Jarvis that the entire USMC would make every effort to have him relieved of his duties if he
moved that monument. I was copied on many of the emails to him from Marines, their friends and their families that it nearly
fried my computer. And...it worked. In order to save his job, Jarvis backed down. The Remembrance now
belongs to the USMC and has its' rightful place in direct view of the USS ARIZONA.
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