US Flag Flies Gallantly Flies Over Historic Sites-- Part 2: USS Arizona and USS Missouri

Harry T. Parker, his son, began wondering what he was going to do with this old 48-star flag that at least one of his father's ships had flown.    Since that ship was historic, he started thinking about other historic sites it might fly over.

He wrote a letter to the White House asking if it could fly there and President Obama was very encouraging.

Since 2015, that flag has flown over more than twenty historical sites, including Fort McHenry in Baltimore, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,  and the USS Wisconsin during a sailor's reenlistment. It has also flown over the only operable LST remaining in the world, the LST-325 (home ported in Evansville, Indiana).

The LST-466's ensign was notably flown over the submerged wreck of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor on the 75th anniversary of the infamous December 7, 1941, attack.  And even more historical, it was flown at 7:45 am, the exact time the attack began in 1941.

In addition, the flag flew over the USS Missouri, where the Japanese signed the papers officially ending World War II on September 2, 1945, that same day.  That was bookending the war for the United States.

--GreGen