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OU basketball: Visit to USS Arizona Memorial, meeting veterans opened the eyes of several Sooners

NORMAN — Khadeem Lattin stood at the rails of the USS Arizona Memorial early Sunday morning and looked out over the serene setting of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and his eye was drawn to the oil slick on the surface above the sunken ship.

Every day, two to nine quarts of oil are released from the USS Arizona, sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

“It's ugly but it's beautiful at the same time, you know what I mean?” Lattin, the Oklahoma sophomore forward, said. “It was a great thing to go out there and see the respect and know that people really died to have what we have today.