Michigan Sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor
by Kathy Warnes
Each passing year the lens of time blurs the story of Pearl Harbor, but people bring it back into focus by remembering. This remembrance is focused on one ship, the Arizona, and one state, Michigan. These few individual stories are just one part of the Michigan chapter, but combined with stories from other states and other nations they help create a panoramic and historical snapshot.
Approximately 1,177 sailors and Marines didn’t return from their tours of duty on the U.S.S. Arizona, including these sailors and soldiers from Michigan. Instead, most of them lay entombed within her, officially listed as missing in action. Their names are engraved on memorials in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl Cemetery), Arizona memorials and museums, and in hometown cemeteries in Michigan and their other home states. Their memories are bequeathed with family genes.
Download this PDF article to read some of the stories of Michigan sailors and marines who didn't survive Pearl Harbor, but are still alive in hearts an memories.
Each passing year the lens of time blurs the story of Pearl Harbor, but people bring it back into focus by remembering. This remembrance is focused on one ship, the Arizona, and one state, Michigan. These few individual stories are just one part of the Michigan chapter, but combined with stories from other states and other nations they help create a panoramic and historical snapshot.
Approximately 1,177 sailors and Marines didn’t return from their tours of duty on the U.S.S. Arizona, including these sailors and soldiers from Michigan. Instead, most of them lay entombed within her, officially listed as missing in action. Their names are engraved on memorials in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl Cemetery), Arizona memorials and museums, and in hometown cemeteries in Michigan and their other home states. Their memories are bequeathed with family genes.
Download this PDF article to read some of the stories of Michigan sailors and marines who didn't survive Pearl Harbor, but are still alive in hearts an memories.
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