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Aloha, part 2

Day 9 -- Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona We rode the bus to Pearl Harbor. The bus in Hawai'i is TheBus, literally.  We also noticed that the bus numbers matched the license plates Sights along the way, note the Hawaiian islands on the shaka hand gesture More murals The visitor center is open air, two museum galleries, a theatre, and lots of memorials The Navy runs the ferry from the visitor center out to the USS Arizona There are buoys at either end of the ship, so you can get a sense of its relation to the memorial structure Look closely, you can see a small, white buoy close to the USS Missouri  and also parts of the USS Arizona sticking out of the water The entrance to the memorial You can still see oil on the water from the ship In the center of the memorial, there was an open area where you could look down directly onto the ship Looking toward the far end of the memorial The far end of the memorial had all the names listed of those that died in the attack on Pearl Harbor I di