How tacky. A man in San Antonio, Texas tried selling via an on-line auction a tiny piece of the USS Arizona, the Navy ship sunk in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack in World War II. The man claimed the
How tacky.
A man in San Antonio, Texas tried selling via an on-line auction a tiny piece of the USS Arizona, the Navy ship sunk in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack in World War II. The man claimed the fragment was given to his son by officials for being among Boy Scouts involved in a cleanup of a Navy storage yard at Pearl Harbor. But the National Park Service doubted that story, saying pieces of the ship wouldn’t have been given away.
Regardless of the question of authenticity, selling part of the ship on which nearly 1,200 sailors died is just plain wrong. It’s also illegal, a fact that, after being relayed to him by the Navy, prompted the Texan to call off the auction – and with it, an inappropriate attempt at personal gain through a painful moment in the nation’s history.
