1. I will be going to the Arizona this Sunday the 21st of January 2007. I am just going overnight but plan to visit the memorial on during the day. I am lucky enough to live only a 18 minute flight away on Kauai. It is always somber but idylic for remembering those who gave their lives for us to enjoy our freedoms that we have.

There is no doubt that the ship is deteriorating. In just the last few years you can see what has been happening.

Posted at 4:49AM on Jan 20th 2007 by Tim Foskett

2. I got over there back in early July. I arrived too late in the day to get to the ship herself (which would have been my second time), but at that point they were making note that the museum's foundation was sinking from all the weight of the visitors and that the building would eventually have to be replaced. Looks like that's not the only problem, now.

Posted at 9:41AM on Jan 20th 2007 by Garrett O'Hara

3. If you can go, linger in the memorial where the names of all the dead sailors are listed. Take the time to read every name.

Posted at 9:43AM on Jan 20th 2007 by JOhn Fembup

4. My wife and I toured the Arizona site in 2005, I posted a photoessay here:
http://www.donaldsensing.com/index.php/2005/12/07/remember-pearl-harbor/

We were told by the NPS guide that the oil bunkers would last for several decades, minimally, and probably a few hundred years.

Not only sailors and Marines killed in the attack are entombed there. Twenty crew assigned to the ship on Dec. 7, 1941 have been inurned since then, inside the remains of the ship.

Posted at 11:11PM on Jan 20th 2007 by Donald Sensing

5. The slow disintegration of the hull of a ship may occur due to the effects of rainwater on solid land as well as in seawater. The Nazi sub U-505 was on display on land for half a century at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry when they found that the hull thickness had been whittled away by the elements. They moved it indoors into its own fabulous exhibit hall to preserve it. Perhaps the Arizona should be raised in sections and exhibited on Ford Island to stop it from being reduced to rust. While it's true that the Arizona is considered a military cemetery for the thousand sailors entombed there, I feel certain that resoration efforts would be made if a military cemetery on land were eroded away to expose the remains to the elements.

Posted at 3:14PM on Jan 25th 2007 by Tantor

6. I just have a question. Why wasn't the Arizona raised to get the survivors out when this all happened? I mean, people heard the survivors tapping out S.O.S. for up to two weeks. Why did they just leave them there?

Posted at 7:21PM on May 29th 2007 by Kaylene

7. Raising a ship is a big undertaking, let alone a large warship. If you can, check out a documentary about raising submerged vessels and you'll see the amount of time and work which goes into it: divers, lift, water conditions.

Could they have cut a hole in the hull to rescue trapped seamen? I don't know the technology at the time. They have the means to rescue submariners because of the airlocks. Not sure about ships.

Posted at 8:40PM on Jun 1st 2007 by Eric Brodeur

8. the men on entombed in uss arizona never knew what hit them. she burned for three days. of the men that got off from down below it was either escape or die by fire and or drowning. one battleship forward of arizona had a dry compart that had surviors but they died because there was wedged against another ship and not be heard. they found remains of 25 sailors and marines in turret number 2 late 1942 when the guns were removed

Posted at 6:19AM on Oct 8th 2007 by jay burns

9. was at aiea heights saw arizona then leo english live indiana was navy corpsman

Posted at 5:57PM on Apr 30th 2008 by george

10. If any part of the Arizona should be saved, it's her stern name plate. It would be a wonderfull tribute to have her name plate reposed at the Sailor's memorial in Washington D.C. or at the state capital.

I heard that the superstructure itself was left in some field near Wapoo Point and that it's still there.

Posted at 5:59PM on Jun 9th 2008 by dan rush