Did no one else on this ship do that? Did no one else on any of the other ships do that?
Call me stupid, but I would have thought every man able on every ship would have done that.
Is what he did extraordinary? I would have thought it would have been the norm for hundreds of men on those ships.
Maybe I just don't get it and maybe there is more to the story. If Chester Nimitz Decorated him, he must have done something above and beyond the call of duty, and perhaps the article isn't conveying it well enough for me to see it.
Yes, apparently i'm that guy.
Frankly, Miller was one of those guys who was expected to run away and hide someplace til it was all over. He was just the laundry guy, after all.
Instead, he did something about it - even figuring out how to operate an AA gun on his own and to return fire. People still argue over whether he hit any enemy planes or not. I suggest that it doesn’t matter. He did something about it, period.
That Sunday morning began a time when we were all Americans, even those of us who had singled out for discrimination, and Miller played his part in it.