Comments on: Home is the Sailor

By: Jim Belcher

Jim Belcher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:36:45 +0000

Eugene Morgan was one of many USS Indianapolis Survivors I have come to know well since 1977. We talked of his experiences on the Indy and his rescue, his life afterwards, and his love of his friends and shipmates. I commend the captain & crew of the USS Ohio, and in particular, Gene’s grandson Jason Witty, for carrying out Gene’s last wish. I’ll miss the talks over a beer or two, that sly smile and quick wit…but God has another sailor to stand watch over Heaven, and Gene is where he wanted to be…with his shipmates, the real heroes of the USS Indianapolis.

By: Perogrullo » Blog Archive » Los supervivientes que regresaron

Perogrullo » Blog Archive » Los supervivientes que regresaron — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:12:52 +0000

[...] 317 supervivientes, hasta que el pasado junio su corazón falló cuando tenía 87 años de edad. Su nieto, el marinero Jason Witty, destinado a bordo del submarino USS Ohio, esparció desde su torr…. Eugene Morgan se reunió así con sus [...]

By: SeniorD

SeniorD — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:54:34 +0000

The Commanding Officer is always the Man in Charge and there is no mistaking CAPT Butler’s Court Martial for what it was. However, I believe there are others who deserved the same fate. Where were the COMMO officers that dropped the ball? What about the rest of Fleet Operations?

600 sailors, chiefs and officers died due to someone’s mistakes. CAPT. Butler aside, someone got off scot-free at the Captain’s expense.

The Indianapolis claimed another life, but like all fish stories, bigger ones got away.

By: SSG Jeff (USAR)

SSG Jeff (USAR) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:19:28 +0000

And so the question arises… where might the SSGN 726 be bound that would include the Phillipine Sea as a transit point?

Or was this simply a most appropriate side-trip?

By: Maritime Monday 134

Maritime Monday 134 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:43:15 +0000

[...] Neptunus Lex has a burial at sea for a survivor of the USS INDIANAPOLIS in “Home is the Sailor“. [...]

By: Michael Ney

Michael Ney — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:22:45 +0000

Another matelot over the bar, rest in peace. Shipmates forever.
“They shall grow not old, as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the Morning,
We will remember them.”