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Article: PEARL HARBOR // Lingering hatred and other legacies of last 50 years
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 8, 1991
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In the shrine room of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor,
author Thurston Clarke was scanning the marble wall engraved with the
names of the battleship's 1,177 crewman killed on Dec. 7, 1941. Then
he heard a whisper: "Please, sir . . . please, sir . . . please!"
He turned "to face a young Japanese woman wearing a pained
smile. She waved the back of her hand, motioning me to move. She
wanted to pose her sister in front of this list of dead sailors, and
I was in the way. I shook my head. She asked again, raising her
voice and becoming annoyed. I glared, folded my arms and turned my
back. Her shutter went clickety-clack, and for a moment I considered
grabbing that camera and exposing ...