StreetMutt wrote:
Agreed. I wasn't implying it was a tragedy for him in some self-interested way.

But I don't think you can crucify someone who swam 500 meters after a car wreck and then passed out (most likely due to shock over liquor). I wasn't there that night and I'm not going to say what he did was right. It was wrong, wrong, wrong. But you can't deny that it haunted him and he made a valiant effort to serve the American people afterward (no matter his beliefs).
It was a wooden bridge over a canal....It's been a long time ago but as I remember he went to town, got a motel room, called lawyers & went to sleep. Ya think there could have been an air bubble in the car that lasted a while? He made a valiant effort to spend other people's money as he had no concept of actually working for it..


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