re: Here’s the tale of the Ship Indianapolis, The torpedoes got some, the sharks got the rest

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On 6 November 1968, McVay took his own life by shooting himself with his service pistol at his home in Litchfield, Connecticut, holding in his hand a toy sailor he had received as a boy for a good luck charm

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That’s a heart wrenching image. The brass wanted a head to roll, someone to shoulder the blame that should have run up the chain, and McVay was the sacrificial lamb.

From what I read it never stopped weighing on him until the load was just too much to bear