New USS Arizona Memorial Opens at Salt River Talking Stick

From the February 22, 2020, 12 News NBC  (Arizona)  by Matt Yurus.

A video accompanies the article and it is quite an impressive memorial and features an original piece of the ship.

U.S. Senator Martha McSally attended the dedication event.  The new memorial is at the Talking Stick Entertainment District in the Salt River Indian Community.

From Fox News:

There is an anchor and a mast of thee ship at the Arizona state capitol.  There is a new piece of the famous battleship at Salt River Field and it is the boathouse which sits in the memorial exactly where it was on the ship.  (These were removed from the ship after the attack.)  There are also planks from the ship there.  This was a part of the original USS Arizona Memorial.

They built a too-scale garden around the piece with over 1500 columns representing everyone who was aboard the Arizona in the attack on December 7, 1941.   All of the columns that are lighted represent someone who died aboard the ship that day.  The smaller unlit ones are for the men who survived.

The exterior columns outline the dimensions of the ship.

One of them is for Donald Stratton who died last Saturday.  Another two are for the two crew members who are still alive.

Quite An Impressive Place.  --GreGen