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Real Name: Lori Kanter
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Hello MM viewers! I'm awarding the Faery Award to this fine piece. Way to go, Larry! Thanks for coloring the Mosaic in faery nice style! :pharoah2
Tranquility
When you arrive in the Hawaiian Islands, this serene, beautiful place overwhelms you the cocoanut trees, the foaming surf leisurely lifestyle, colorful flora,
but there is one place that is above all others, Pearl Harbor there in eternal tranquility lies the USS ARIZONA below the waters and now honored with a befitting memorial,
to describe the area from where my ship berthed… standing amidships and looking aft was the broad channel from the Pacific that was the entrance to the naval base
looking forward was the shipyard and all ship’s berths directly across from our ship was Ford Island and within that line of site is the ARIZONA When I was there the memorial wasn’t built only a wood platform with a flagpole
The ARIZONA is still in commission, each morning and evening a launch would go to the platform for morning reveille and evening taps
speakers on the base would announce “attention to colors” traffic would halt every sailor on shore would face toward the ARIZONA
while they played the music and the colors were run up or down the flagstaff everyone saluted
the most outstanding tribute was when the task forces were rotating, from the Korean War
We could see the ships, steaming into port first the destroyers, then cruisers, battleships and finally the carriers and as each ship approached the USS ARIZONA
on the ship’s PA you would hear “attention to starboard Hand Salute” all sailors manning the rails would salute and the quartermaster would slowly lower the flag to half mast
Each and every ship would render honors when the carriers came by four thousand men on the flight deck in unison saluted
A fitting tribute that still goes on today I haven’t been back in over fifty years but writing about it, puts me there again. Aloha… Shipmates.
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