This story makes me smile. These were the days when men were men. You can see in one of the pictures in the article how he’s regaling the men of his story, smiling and gesturing. There’s pride there. Pride for what he did, pride for his country, pride for his training. That pride is called “the patriarchy” nowadays.
How I long for the days of pride in what we do. God bless Captain Williams.
Pride in fighting halfway around the world with no declaration of war by Congress … as a tool of the United Nations.
No thanks. It’s clear to me where this country went off the rails.
The USS Sterett incident in the Viet Nam War is a bit like this. The incident was given very short shrift, the official reports were so concise as to be deceptive, the incident was given the official memory hole treatment and there has never been a book length treatment of what was the most heroic surface engagement of the war. The reason is that Soviet and possibly CCF forces had carefully orchestrated the engagement to collect data on real time US defensive maritime capabilities against east bloc air, maritime and ground to sea systems.