Sidebar-USS Arizona Preservation Project
09-25-2005, 02:53 PM
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Re: Sidebar-USS Arizona Preservation Project
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"Peter Parker" <nospam@zero.com> wrote in message
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> In article <1127526335.430105.159950@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
> Bret Ludwig <bretldwig@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>On December 7, 1941 the United States of America became directly
>>involved in the greatest of human conflicts, World War II. Even before
>>bombs fell on Pearl Harbor that Sunday morning, it was clear to many
>>Americans that they would soon be at war with Japan. What was
>>unexpected was the seemingly apocalyptic nature of the raid. Emblazoned
>>on the minds of millions of Americans, the single most powerful image
>>associated with the Pearl Harbor attack, was the smoking metal and
>>twisted mast of USS Arizona.
>>
>>In 1983, the Submerged Resources Center of the National Park Service
>>was tasked with mapping and photo-documenting the remains of USS
>>Arizona in its final resting place in Pearl Harbor. The National Park
>>Service was responsible for managing a major national shrine that was
>>largely hidden from view and for which no management precedent existed.
>>During and after the war, Navy salvage teams had cut away most of the
>>ship's superstructure. Eventually a memorial was built over the
>>sunken ship's hull, which is a grave for nearly 1,000 U.S.
>>servicemen.
>>
>>To effectively manage the memorial, the National Park Service needed to
>>answer a variety of questions, beginning with "what's there,
>>beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor?" To answer that, several field
>>seasons in the 1980s were devoted to producing a comprehensive line
>>drawing of the 608-foot battleship - the largest object ever mapped
>>underwater at the time.
>>
>>After developing a basic understanding of what was there, the next set
>>of questions focused on answering the question, what's happening to
>>what's there? What sort of hull integrity remains? Is the ship in
>>imminent danger of collapse? Where is the oil coming from that leaks so
>>conspicuously from the ship? Research designed to answer those
>>questions began in the late 1980s, and have continued in recent years.
>>For the past two decades the Submerged Resources Center has been
>>spearheading the National Park Service's research on one of Americas
>>most hallowed war memorials.<<
>
> This part here obivously looks like a cut and paste from another source.
> Besides, he used >> and << to mark a quote IMO.
> To prove this I checked the readability test on the above paragraphs
> and they passed the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readability test with a
> grade level of 7.2. Most news articles are around a grade level of 8.
>
>> I have news for the Park Service, it's salt water and steel does not
>>survive salt water. It's a grave. Nature attacks bodies, returns them
>>to the biosphere by deacay and eating by worms. (That's how it's
>>supposed to work. People buy steel coffins and concrete vaults and it's
>>contrary to nature.) Either refloat the hull and BURY the bodies or let
>>nature do its job and attack the hull, what biomass is left (very
>>little) and all and reduce it to the seafloor. In other words, it's a
>>----in' boondoggle.
>>
>> The attack at Pearl Harbor was a tragedy, but it's history. Number one
>>we immolated the Japanese tenfold, a hundredfold, and more, and the
>>debt is paid. Number two, FDR the son of a low -----,(but not as bad as
>>'Bar',La Cuntessa Suprema) who some patriotic American should have <>
>>in his wheelchair, put Japan in the position where it had little other
>>choice. Imperial Japan was a brutal society but they were no threat to
>>us. Number three, we don't learn from history very well, do we? No, we
>>don't.
>>
>>So I guess we are going to have to learn the same thing again. It would
>>be better if we did not have to repeat the senseless loss, like the men
>>on USS Arizona.
>>
>> I say we change our way of thinking.
>
> The rest of this post passed with a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 2.5.
> So this must be original writing as an 2nd grade level poster. :)
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"Peter Parker" <nospam@zero.com> wrote in message
news:4336e031_2@nntp2.nac.net...
> In article <1127526335.430105.159950@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
> Bret Ludwig <bretldwig@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>On December 7, 1941 the United States of America became directly
>>involved in the greatest of human conflicts, World War II. Even before
>>bombs fell on Pearl Harbor that Sunday morning, it was clear to many
>>Americans that they would soon be at war with Japan. What was
>>unexpected was the seemingly apocalyptic nature of the raid. Emblazoned
>>on the minds of millions of Americans, the single most powerful image
>>associated with the Pearl Harbor attack, was the smoking metal and
>>twisted mast of USS Arizona.
>>
>>In 1983, the Submerged Resources Center of the National Park Service
>>was tasked with mapping and photo-documenting the remains of USS
>>Arizona in its final resting place in Pearl Harbor. The National Park
>>Service was responsible for managing a major national shrine that was
>>largely hidden from view and for which no management precedent existed.
>>During and after the war, Navy salvage teams had cut away most of the
>>ship's superstructure. Eventually a memorial was built over the
>>sunken ship's hull, which is a grave for nearly 1,000 U.S.
>>servicemen.
>>
>>To effectively manage the memorial, the National Park Service needed to
>>answer a variety of questions, beginning with "what's there,
>>beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor?" To answer that, several field
>>seasons in the 1980s were devoted to producing a comprehensive line
>>drawing of the 608-foot battleship - the largest object ever mapped
>>underwater at the time.
>>
>>After developing a basic understanding of what was there, the next set
>>of questions focused on answering the question, what's happening to
>>what's there? What sort of hull integrity remains? Is the ship in
>>imminent danger of collapse? Where is the oil coming from that leaks so
>>conspicuously from the ship? Research designed to answer those
>>questions began in the late 1980s, and have continued in recent years.
>>For the past two decades the Submerged Resources Center has been
>>spearheading the National Park Service's research on one of Americas
>>most hallowed war memorials.<<
>
> This part here obivously looks like a cut and paste from another source.
> Besides, he used >> and << to mark a quote IMO.
> To prove this I checked the readability test on the above paragraphs
> and they passed the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readability test with a
> grade level of 7.2. Most news articles are around a grade level of 8.
>
>> I have news for the Park Service, it's salt water and steel does not
>>survive salt water. It's a grave. Nature attacks bodies, returns them
>>to the biosphere by deacay and eating by worms. (That's how it's
>>supposed to work. People buy steel coffins and concrete vaults and it's
>>contrary to nature.) Either refloat the hull and BURY the bodies or let
>>nature do its job and attack the hull, what biomass is left (very
>>little) and all and reduce it to the seafloor. In other words, it's a
>>----in' boondoggle.
>>
>> The attack at Pearl Harbor was a tragedy, but it's history. Number one
>>we immolated the Japanese tenfold, a hundredfold, and more, and the
>>debt is paid. Number two, FDR the son of a low -----,(but not as bad as
>>'Bar',La Cuntessa Suprema) who some patriotic American should have <>
>>in his wheelchair, put Japan in the position where it had little other
>>choice. Imperial Japan was a brutal society but they were no threat to
>>us. Number three, we don't learn from history very well, do we? No, we
>>don't.
>>
>>So I guess we are going to have to learn the same thing again. It would
>>be better if we did not have to repeat the senseless loss, like the men
>>on USS Arizona.
>>
>> I say we change our way of thinking.
>
> The rest of this post passed with a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 2.5.
> So this must be original writing as an 2nd grade level poster. :)
>
>
>
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> Jeeps and dubs and everything's nice...
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