this is an incredible story. depending on how you figure it, oklahoma city is 500 miles from anything that might count as ocean. if you want to spend a day at the beach and you're starting in oklahoma city, you will want to allow eight hours or so for a drive to the nearest ocean at the gulf of mexico. oklahoma has many charms but views of the ocean are not among them. and yet right there in oklahoma city you will find a gigantic anchor. this anchor weighs ten tons. it is huge. truly huge. and the reason that anchor is there in the middle of landlocked oklahoma is that that anchor used to belong to a u.s. navy ship named after the sooner state. the battleship "uss oklahoma" was built for use in world war i in the atlantic. the navy later modernized "the oklahoma" and brought it to the pacific, and on the morning of december 7th, 1941 the "uss oklahoma" was one of eight u.s. battleships stationed at pearl harbor in hawaii. and we all know what happened