Pearl Harbor 70th Anniversary

From the Dec. 4, 2011, Indianapolis Star "Pearl Harbor: A Rediscovery" by Alex Farris.

The new Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum and Visitor Center on Oahu has a replica oscilloscope showing what the radar technicians saw just before the attack.  An American sailor describes climbing out of the stricken USS Oklahoma, but his buddies died.  The new center places much emphasis on the personal side of the attack,

The new facility took five years to build and cost $56 million and, at 24,000 square feet, doubles the old one.

For the next twenty years after the attack, nothing was done at Pearl Harbor other than simple flag-raising ceremonies.  In 1962, Elvis Presley held a concert to raise money for the Arizona Memorial, which, even then, had no interpretation.  It wasn't until 1980 that the National Park Service built the old visitors center.

Pearl Harbor survivor Robert Kinzler was a private at Schofield Barracks during the attack and has volunteered to work at the memorial ever since 1985.

The Day of Infamy.  --GreGen