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out of your room, where you have put her so she won’t armor-piercing bomb that entered the forward
be stressed out by all the activity and strange people ammunition compartment, tearing the ship in
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sibility to make sure her kids behave. If they can’t 1,512 crewmen on board, of whom 1,177 were
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and Lt. General Walter Short, U.S. Army
commander, were relieved of their duties, and STEVE IRWIN 1. The USS Nevada was repaired after Pearl Harbor and
entered into several investigations and finally went on to fight in another WWII battle at what beach?
early retirement. In 1999, both were exonerated This month we celebrate Steve Irwin Day, set 2. What university campus houses one of the bells salvaged
after their deaths by the U.S. Senate. aside to commemorate the life of the famous from the USS Arizona?
• It was the goal of the Japanese to decimate Australian animal enthusiast and host of “Croc- 3. Where can the mast, anchor, and gun barrel from the USS
the Pacific Fleet. But because all of the Fleet’s odile Hunter.” Arizona be found?
aircraft carriers were safely away from the base • Steve Irwin came into the world of wildlife 4. Name the musical artist who donated $64,000 from a
that day, the U.S. was able to rebound from the naturally since his parents owned a wildlife 1961 concert toward construction of the USS Arizona
attack. The Japanese also failed to destroy the park. Although his father was a plumber by memorial.
base’s oil storage depots, power station, dry trade and his mother was a nurse, the pair both 5. What battleship was the site of the surrender of the
dock, torpedo storage facility, repair facilities, loved wildlife, and when Steve was a young Empire of Japan?
shipyard, submarine docks, and headquarters child, they opened the Beerwah Reptile Park in
building. Queensland, Australia. HOLIDAYNOV 30th & NOV 30th &
• The USS Arizona memorial receives more • Steve received a python for his sixth birthday, DEC 1st DEC 1st
than two million visitors annually. The sunken the same year he caught his first venomous 11am - 6pm
battleship is submerged in less than 40 feet snake. By age nine, he was assisting his father OPEN HOUSE11am-6pm
(12.2 m) of water, but none of the wreckage in wrestling and catching problem crocodiles NOVEMBER 30TH & DECEMBER 1ST
is above water, because its guns, turrets, and who made their way to boat ramps. Steve
superstructures were removed. jumped on the crocs in the water, put his legs HOLIDAY GIFTS – OLD & NEW
• The death toll from the Pearl Harbor attack around the neck, and wrestled the reptile into
was 2,403 American citizens, including 2,335 the boat. Steve described it as “like being tossed 20% OFF purchase of 1 item
military personnel and 68 civilians. The Japa- around in a washing machine.” He determined $10 or more
nese loss was 64 Navy members and 29 out of at that young age that catching crocodiles was
their 353 attacking aircraft. Twenty-three sets the life he wanted. Just Looking
of brothers aboard the USS Arizona perished. • Steve spent his young adulthood capturing 4 Main St. • Lockport, NY 14094
problem crocodiles, saving them from poach-
Answers on Page 7 ers’ bullets, and moving them to his family’s
facility. When his parents retired in the 1990s,
Steve took over the management and renamed
the facility the Australia Zoo.
• Twenty-seven-year-old Oregon resident Terri
Raines was vacationing in Australia in 1991
when she visited the Irwin family wildlife park.
There she met Steve, and by June of the fol-
lowing year, they were married. They spent
their “honeymoon” filming a documentary that
would become part of “The Crocodile Hunter.”
Four years after the series debuted in Australia,
it was picked up by America’s cable channel,
Animal Planet. (continued on next page)

Answers on Page 7

1. In what year was the USS Arizona first
launched?
2. Who was the one dissenting vote against
the declaration of war against Japan?

Solution on page 8

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Tammy Lee-Kavney-ROSe rescued. In 2003, while filming a documentary
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In addition to the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese also launched attacks against Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippines, Wake Island,
and Midway Island on December 7 and 8, 1941.


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