[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I never understood that aspect of his life story.

How does allowing a Japanese Destroyer to cut a ship that you command in half in the middle of the Pacific Ocean make you a hero?

[katieanna]

I believe he saved all his men from death by drowning.

[saveliberty]

Or having slept with a Nazi spy and avoided a court martial, allegedly with the influence of the Ambassador, Joe Kennedy.

[BenLurkin]

"How does allowing a Japanese Destroyer to cut a ship that you command in half in the middle of the Pacific Ocean make you a hero?"

That has baffled me for years. The answer to that question might very well be the key to decoding what it is that has sickened our national "leadership" over the last forty years.