Originally Posted by CB HI
I am pretty sure they still provide the paper. Navy can't take all the credit for the visitor center, that is run by the US Parks Service. Navy does run the boats and looks over the USS Arizona itself. The Navy did build a nice memorial on the other side of Ford Island, where the USS Iowa still rest, plus they allowed a new private donation Air Museum on Ford Island.
Having been stationed on Ford Island (3rd Fleet Staff) and having studied a bit of the attack on Ford Island, I think you meant to say USS Utah. The USS Iowa was not sunk at Pearl Harbor. In fact she was decommssioned in Oct 1990. FWIW an interesting historical note. I was a LCDR at Pearl Harbor from 1986-1988 and I was once assigned escort duty to a VIP to visit the USS Arizona Memorial. It came as a shock to me (and is historically wierd) that the officer I escorted to the Arizona Memorial was Admiral Yamamoto, head of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (Japanese Navy)intelligence department. The Park Serice suspended visits to the Memorial while we were there. He laid a wreath and was truly contemplative and seemed very moved by the visit. I do not know if he was a relative of the (in)famous WWII Admiral Yamamoto.