Some Gave All

Saturday, June 29, 2013

US Submarine Memorial, Pearl Harbor Hawaii

This submarine is the subject of a previous entry here as there is a memorial for its crew at the Veterans Cemetery in Natrona County, Wyoming.

Friday, June 28, 2013

National Park Service USS Arizona (Pearl Harbor) Memorial, Pearl Harbor Hawaii.

The National Park Service administered a park dedicated to the history of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 as the USS Arizona Memorial. The memorial dedicated specifically to the USS Arizona is featured elsewhere on this blog, so this part of that memorial, which lies across from Ford Island in site of the USS Arizona memorial, is featured here.

The Park Service site covers more than just the Arizona and is dedicated to the memory of every American, including civilians, who died in the December 7 attack. The portion of the memorial featured above lists everyone outside of those who died on the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma, which have separate memorials, as noted elsewhere on this blog.

U.S. ships at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Some Gave All

Some Gave All is one of a series of our blogs which are basically photographic in nature. The main blog, the "hub", is Holscher's Hub, which is a general photo site. The general blog that we have that receives the most viewing attention is Lex Anteinternet, which started off, and which also remains, a blog for the study of historical topics of the 1890-1920 time frame, but which also deals with about everything else. Our daily Wyoming history blog is Today In Wyoming's History.

We also have four specific photograph blogs with dedicated topics, those being Churches of the West, Courthouses of the West, Railhead and Painted Bricks. Those blogs are dedicated to photographs of the topics their title indicates (more or less). This blog, while a history minded one, fits into the latter category. It depicts monuments, mostly war memorials, that we've run across in our travels.

Many of these photos, indeed probably all of them, were taken as the opportunity arose. It'd be rare here to find a photo in which we had gone out specifically to photograph the memorial. Because of that, they will not have a professional quality, as we have to take the monument, including the light, weather, and other conditions, as we find them. Still, that serves the purpose, which is to record monuments and memorials that otherwise would likely be missed by most people.