Vintage OOAK Piece Of The USS Arizona WWII Memorial Wall Honolulu Hawaii




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Reference Number: Avaluer:603806Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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Vintage OOAK Genuine Piece of the USS Arizona WWII Memorial Wall Honolulu Hawaii. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
This is the 3rd and last of three One-Of-A-Kind pieces of the Original 1962 USS Arizona Memorial Wall that I’m offering! I am retired and without an heir, so I want these pieces of history to have a good home. The Arizona Memorial Museum Association sells smaller pieces of marble from the original floor of the memorial, but none like thes...e. The USS Arizona Memorial was completed and formally dedicated on May 30, 1962. Unfortunately the saltwater environment almost immediately caused the steel pins securing the white Vermont marble panels to rust, staining the white marble with reddish rust stains. The original 1962 Wall of Remembrance was replaced in 1983/84 and this piece is from that original 1962 wall. The 1984 replacement used aluminum pins to hold the panels (and this 2nd wall was, like the first, damaged by the salt water environment and it too had to be replaced in 2014). In 1990 I was a National Park Ranger at the USS Memorial and I, along with several others rangers, were given some small pieces of the original 1962 wall before the remaining marble was “recycled”. This is #3 of 3 pieces I had – Each are a one-of-a-kind original from the 1962 wall. You can see where the piece was in the photos I took of the 1984 replacement wall. I sold the first two pieces last year. Reference from AMVETS Hawaii .org website USS Arizona Memorial Restoration Initiative page:“Unfortunately, the Wall of Remembrance, a permanent memorial with all the names inscribed in marble panels, began to deteriorate over many years, making them hard or impossible to read. In 1983, AMVETS replaced the Wall of Remembrance, which was rededicated in 1984. Thirty years later the Wall of Remembrance once again faced the challenges of deterioration and needed replacement. As keepers of the Wall, AMVETS again honored our commitment and raised the funds to replace the 138 Olympian White marble panels adorned with the names of the fallen. Construction on the Memorial began in August 2014 and the wall was rededicated this past Veterans Day 2014.” 




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