You left out the part about how overzealous Navy investigators concocted "evidence" to fit this theory, but that it eventually fell apart and the Navy issued a public apology to Hartwig's family.
You had just mentioned that part in the post preceding mine.
I merely documented your statement -- and pointed out exactly why the Iowa might still be a sore subject with many San Franciscans.
One can only surmise that their "tolerance" doesn't extend to forgiving people who had already apologized...or tolerating inanimate objects that remind them of a "special and personal" unpleasantness.
IMHO, it was not the Iowa's warrior status that offended the San Francisco "community" -- it was because it was the scene of an (unforgivable) assault on the lascivious "lifestyle" that is the center of their existence. And, before you ask: No, I am not tolerant of those who would intrude their perverted immorality into our lives -- even to the extent of publicly dishonoring an Americon icon of heroism.
Of course, that makes me definitely not "wideminded"...