My wife gave me this flag which flew over the USS Arizona Memorial on my birthday, 7 October, 2001.
Most of you have seen this old Navy Colt which was one of the 100 issued to BB39 when she was commissioned in 1916.
I thought the two would be fitting together. I was 9 years old on 12-7-1941, and can clearly remember my father coming to the local football stadium, where me and some friends were playing and telling us about the attack. We couldn't fully understand the implications.
We understood much better when the telegrams started arriving later in the war.........
