In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled When Fukushima exploded, foreign embassies told everyone to FLEE. Commercial planes turned around. Ships steered away as fast as they could. And where was the USS Ronald Reagan? STEERING DIRECTLY INTO IT. AT MAXIMUM SPEED., Sequoyah101 wrote: True? Never knew it.
I believe it's true. When I read about it, back when it was happening, the MSM made it sound like incompetence and indifference to the survival of the enlisted onboard. I was moved to finally read of the mission. The writer is a man from Japan now living in the US, writing about the contrasts in culture, often humorously.
True without doubt. Read the Wikipedia account.
These were obama years, not celebrating our greatness and generosity does not surprise me.
These things make me proud to be an American. These kinds of things is who we are supposed to be.