This black granite obelisk is dedicated to those in Naval Aviation who manned the ships and who flew from their decks. It also serves as a headstone for those of our Shipmates who sleep forevermore beneath the eternal sea.

"...Those days produced a rare camaraderie -- that of men who have been in battle together -- and the intensity of that camaraderie, these many years later, still defies any rational explanation. It is a bond so strong, so immediate, that it wipes away, at least momentarily, all of the normal barriers of class, politics and race. Nothing in terms of friendship need precede it, nothing need follow it. It exists of itself, nothing more asked, nothing more required." ...David Halberstram