WVU Students Work to Create a Memorial to USS West Virginia

From the May 12, 2016, Huntington (WV) Herald-Dispatch.

We are coming up on the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, an event where 106 sailors aboard the USS West Virginia died.

The West Virginia University students have begun a project to memorialize those dead.  They have created a petition for the West Virginia to receive its own memorial.

The battleship was the only ship active on the first and on the last day of the war.  The "WeeVee," as it is called, is one of three battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor which does not have its own memorial.

The students have launched a social media campaign to encourage West Virginia citizens to petition Congress for a permanent memorial.

Good Luck to Them.  --GreGen