From the September 16, 2016, Tucson News (Az) Now "UA shares memorial plans with USS Arizona survivor" by Craig Reck.
Lauren Bruner, a USS Arizona survivor from Pearl Harbor, one of just seven remaining survivors of that doomed ship, visited the University of Arizona and received a personal briefing on plans for a USS Artizona Memorial on campus.
The names of the 1,177 sailors and Marines who lost their lives that day will be enshrined in bronze medallions and placed in a new memorial plaza in the center of the ship's outline, outside the open canyon walkway of the Student Union memorial Center.
The outline will be 600 feet long and almost 100 feet wide.
The UA is a repository for artifacts from the USS Arizona and one of the largest archives of memorabilia in the world for the ship.
The memorial is expected to be finished in time for a Remembrance Ceremony on December 4 at 3 p.m..
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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