Visitors Center for USS Arizona Memorial Sinking

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http://sandiego.cox.net/cci/newsnational/national?_mode=view&_state=maximized&view=article&id=D86TRSJG0

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The USS Arizona Memorial's visitors center was designed to accommodate 750,000 people a year when it was built in 1980, but today it's jammed with crowds more than twice that big _ and it's literally bursting at the seams.

Portions of the shoreside building and plaza commemorating the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor have settled as much as 30 inches and are still slowly sinking, and the concrete structure is cracking.

"Our office space is crammed, our visitor space is crammed, capacity is a significant issue on all fronts," said Douglas Lentz, the National Park Service superintendent in charge of the visitors center. "Then you've got the structural integrity of the building."

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1. Does anybody else see the irony in this?

[NYC]

2. Yes.