USS Oklahoma memorial running full steam ahead

 
By John Greiner
Published: October 7, 2007

With nine weeks to go, planners of the USS Oklahoma Memorial say everything is on schedule for the Dec. 7 dedication of the memorial to 429 sailors and Marines on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor .

"It is going to happen, and it is set in fast-setting concrete,” said Tucker McHugh , an Edmond banker and co-chairman of the memorial committee. "All the wheels are in motion ... airlines, tickets.”...


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