I spent 3 1/2 years in Pearl Harbor stationed on the USS Pintado, SSN 672. Dec 7th 1992 I was standing topside watch in my summer whites for morning colors, within easy sight distance of the Arizona Memorial. It was a very sobering experience. When I was in Pearl Ford Island was used as a training facility. We would ride the small boat over there when we were taking classes. We would pass through the old pilings that used to be battleship row. There was still plenty of evidence of the attack on Ford Island. Holes from bullets and shrapnel, patches on buildings, scars on lots of things. It was one of those things that was always kind of in the back of my consciousness. Knowing what had happened there and how many lives had been changed permanently by that event.
