How do they inter bodies at the USS Arizona?

I know this is kind of morbid but..... I went to Oahu last month and was very moved by the Arizona Memorial. The tour guides said that as survivors of Pearl Harbor die, many of those who survived the attack on the Arizona wish to be buried with their soldier brothers. Does the military scatter the ashes above the site? Do they inter the ashes or bodies inside the Arizona? Again, I know this sounds morbid. I teach high school history and shared the story with my students and they were wondering. Thanks for the help.|||I couldn't find anything online. If you go to: http://www.nps.gov/usar/ there is an "e-mail us" link. Maybe you could find an answer that way. Sorry I wasn't more help. I'd assume they'd scatter the ashes, though. Anything more, like dropping a body in, would disturb the site.|||The Arizona is considered a "war grave"


The bodies of service men who died %26amp; could not be retrieved are still aboard.


RIP|||USS Arizona (BB-39) --


Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii


In March 1950, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet, originated the practice of displaying the National Ensign over the sunken remains of USS Arizona. The ship's midships structure, which remained above water level, came to be used as a platform for memorial services, and she was the object of passing honors rendered as Navy ships passed by.





During the later 1950s, efforts began to erect a suitable memorial over her hulk to commemorate the sacrifices of her more than 1100 dead crewmen, the other U.S. Servicemen killed in the Pearl Harbor attack and the personnel lost in the Pacific Theatre during the Second World War. Some of the Arizona's remaining midships superstructure was removed, and pilings were driven beyond the sides of her hull to support the Memorial, which spans but does not touch the sunken ship.





Dedicated in May 1962, the white open-air shrine contains the names of all the men lost with Arizona and has sufficient space for 250 people to attend services within it. One of Hawaii's most-visited historic sites, it is reached by boat from the USS Arizona Memorial exhibit area on the opposite side of the Pearl Harbor channel.





This page features selected views of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including images of memorial activities on the Arizona's wreck prior to construction of the Memorial structure.