Via Jeffery "The highlight of the the Linden, TN
re-enactment I attended yesterday was a speech/testimonial from a marine
who was aboard the USS Indianapolis when it sank and was one of the 317
who survived. He spoke for about twenty-five minutes. Afterwards I
approached and spoke with him. I told him my high school
principal/football coach had been a radioman on the Indy. He asked his
name and I replied Aubrey Hicks. He said, "he didn't make it". I told
him he did and that Hicks and four more had gone into town just before
the Indy sailed to deliver the bomb.
Hicks declined his friends offer
three times, but they insisted that he go and they would "pay his way".
The four ended up getting hammered and were AWOL when the ship sailed.
They spent 35 days in the stockade, but lived.The old gentleman replied,
"Oh yeah, those four! I remember the story now, Thank you for sharing
that with me"! I found this video of him on YouTube. I videoed some of
the highlights of his speech/testimonial (the Capt. Quinn moment from
Jaws "1200 men went into the water, 317 came out" basically), but my
sound quality was poor. (Link to his book.)
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