This is less-than-spectacular news…

USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor closed indefinitely

There is some structural damage. This doesn’t seem to be the result of any one accident or incident, but the result of simply being a nearly 60-year-old floating structure. As such, it seems to me that if need be an all-new one, built to the same design but using more advanced materials, could be manufactured and simply swapped for the old one with relatively minimal headache. But then what to do with the old one? I think that a good case can be made for stripping it of Useful And Important Stuff, plaques and whatnot, and moving them to the replacement memorial, and then moving the old memorial out to sea, calmly sink it and turn it into the basis of a new coral reef for the critters.