Problem: How do you feel about the artifact and value of this organization?
Artifacts in the U.S. Navy are ships such as the USS Arizona (BB 39), and one of the main organization values is Courage.
In October 1916, the 31,400-ton Pennsylvania class battleship USS Arizona was commissioned (NHHC, n.d.). December 7, 1941, Japanese carrier aircraft attacked Arizona as she was anchored in Pearl Harbor's "Battleship Row" (NHHC, n.d.). She was struck by several bombs, one of which pierced her forecastle and destroyed her forward ammo stores (NHHC, n.d.). Over 1,100 of the crewmembers were killed when the ship's forward hull was destroyed by the subsequent enormous explosion, which also brought down her forward superstructure and caused her to sink (NHHC, n.d.). The battleship's hull was still present where she sank, serving as a memorial for many of those who perished along with her (NHHC, n.d.). A beautiful memorial structure was built over her midship hull in the early 1960s (NHHC, n.d.). She started serving as a location for memorial rituals in 1950 (NHHC, n.d.). The USS Arizona Memorial is a perpetual memorial to the Americans who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the tragic Pacific War that originated there (NHHC, n.d.).
Figure 1. USS Arizona Memorial (DOI, 2023).