[Leisler]

JFK had crew asleep or not at stations when they got run over by a ship half their speed, and five times their length.

Joe got his aircrew killed when the electronics officer said the aircraft was unsafe and refused to fly.

Ted.

Young Joe got a girl paralyzed when he flipped a jeep on the Cape.

John John killed his wife and her sister as the pilot and responsible operator knowing flying in violation of his license restriction.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Joe got his aircrew killed when the electronics officer said the aircraft was unsafe and refused to fly.

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My understanding is that Joe volunteered for a very dangerous mission along the lines of “load an airplane full of explosives, set it on a course for occupied France, and bail out at some opportune time”. Obviously something didn’t go as planned and he died. In my mind, he’s a hero who died fighting for his country.

Although I don’t have direct, incontrovertible evidence of any of this, I think a man who dies in uniform while his country is at war, is due not a small amount of deference.