Visit our new Front Page Store . New Sign up for MyNews Receive headline news, full articles and breaking news via the Web or wireless device. Along Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor are the docks where World War II began for the United States.
Paint is fresh.
Big guns jut from turrets. The touchstone of peace looks ready for war. The formidable military bearing, however, is no longer meant to intimidate enemies. Since January 1999, when the vessel opened as the USS Missouri Memorial, the ship gives visitors a taste of history and daily life on the Mighty Mo and honors the sailors and officers who served aboard it. The museum ship is moored just south of the USS Arizona Memorial, at the site where the battleships Maryland and Oklahoma were tied up the day the Japanese attacked.