Pearl Harbor Survivor: USS Nevada

J. B. Sykes was stationed in Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36), the U.S. Navy's first super dread-nought and sister ship of the USS Oklahoma, as a Fireman 1st Class at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.  The USS Nevada was the only battleship able to get underway during the attack.

Pearl Harbor Survivor: USS Nevada

Robert Marshall Burr was stationed in Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36), the U.S. Navy's first super dread-nought and sister ship of the USS Oklahoma, as a Yeoman 2nd Class at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.  The USS Nevada was the only battleship able to get underway during the attack.



Pearl Harbor Survivor: USS Oklahoma

Francis Rowe "Parky" Parkinson was stationed in Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB-37), a World War I-era Battleship, as a Fireman 2nd Class at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.  He was a member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Chapter 31.

Pearl Harbor Survivor: USS Whitney

Luther James Bailey was stationed in Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Whitney (AD-4), a Dobbin-class Destroyer Tender, as a Seaman 1st Class at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.

Words: Robert Frost

In a Disused Graveyard

The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
The verses in it say and say:
"The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay."
So sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet can't help marking all the time
How no one dead will seem to come.
What is it men are shrinking from?
It would be easy to be clever
And tell the stones:  Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever.
I think they would believe the lie.

-Robert Frost

From the 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of poems, New Hampshire, by Robert Frost (1874-1963).