Some thoughts. As a commenter points out, many of the men died of many awful things — drowning, dehydration, loss of blood — the sharks were just one way for a relative few of them, but somehow I guess it’s human nature to attach some special horror to being eaten by wild animals. Anyway, as they said, they delivered the bomb, and we should be in awe at the sacrifice that generation made for us. It’s a shame that many today seem to want to squander the freedom that was won then.
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Until the movie ‘Jaws’ came out, many people had never heard of the USS Indianapolis sinking or of the plight of the crew. It was just another ship sunk during WWII. Too bad that most people don’t even recognize what that win meant for the World. Worse still, plenty of people IN our gov’t are working toward giving us the same kind of over controlled, under free country the Fascists sought.
Thank God we still have the freedom to talk about these things here, for now anyway.
Thanks for posting this Rand. This tragedy needs to be kept in the populace’ memory for as long as possible. And possibly even more so than the sinking the contemptible treatment that Captain McVay suffered at the hands of the US Navy afterwards should never be forgotten.
I know in my own family that my great aunt and uncle never got over the loss of their son: Radioman 2nd Arthur Cecil Trotter, for whom I was named.