THE USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATED 50 YEARS AGO ON MEMORIAL DAY.
THE STRUCTURE AND A WALL WITH NEARLY 1200 NAMES STANDS AS A SHRINE IN HONOR OF THOSE
THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR RETIRED COMMAND SEARGENT MAJOR STERLING
CALE IS A PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR.
"A MAN GIVES HIS LIFE IN BATTLE, HE'S DONE EVERYTHING HE CAN."
AND TODAY ALONG WITH OTHER VETERANS ARE HONORING THOSE WHO REST HERE.
"THIS MEMORIAL, THESE MEMORIALS ARE PROOF POSITIVE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUGHT AND
WHO FELL ON THAT FATEFUL DAY THAT THEIR SACRIFICES WERE NOT IN VAIN AND THAT WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER
THEIR INDOMITABLE SPIRIT."
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR WAS MORE THAN 70 YEARS AGO AND CEREMONIES LIKE THIS REMIND
SEARGENT MAJOR CALE OF HIS OWN MORTATLITY AND THE LEGACY HE AND OTHERS MIGHT LEAVE BEHIND.
"EVEN OUR PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS WHO ARE ALL 85 AND 95 WE WILL SOON BE GONE AND I JUST
WONDER IF THEY'LL EVER EMEMBER US LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT WE REMEMBER."
THIS CEREMONY AT THE USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL IS A TESTAMENT TO THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE TO ETERNALLY REMEMBER THE LIVES LOST AND THE SACRIFICES MADE AT THIS UNDERWATER
GRAVE AND FOR SEARGENT MAJOR CALE IT'S ONE MORE CHANCE TO SAY THANK YOU AND FAREWELL
TO HIS COMRADES.
NICK TOVO, PEARL HARBOR HAWAII.
