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Voices Crying Out From an Oilspill - Honoring the Fallen of Pearl Harbor
 

It would be easy to cap this oil leak, and in the grand scheme of things it would probably cost very little to do. At the time of the ship’s sinking it still contained approximately 1.4 million gallons of oil. Every day for the last 70 years the USS Arizona leaks approximately a quart and a half of oil (that’s 6 cups) to the surface. It’s estimated there are less than half a million gallons of oil left today, leaking one drop at a time to the top. It isn’t so much that it demands our attention because of an oil spill as much as the symbolic “black tears” of the thousand plus men who are entombed there. Every day their voices rise to the surface begging visitors to take notice of them. Perhaps it’s a cry to never forget what an enemy can do if given the chance. It might pose as a small environmental disaster but who would dare silence the loud, inaudible cry of 1,177 men, whose voices rise to the surface daily?
 
There will come a day when these black tears stop flowing, but not before all those who survived the attack have faded ... more

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