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USS Indianapolis: The Legacy, a new top WWII documentary!

USS Indianapolis: The Legacy, a new top WWII documentary!

USS Indianapolis: The Legacy, produced by filmmakers Sara Vladic and Melanie Capacia Johnson, was an official selection at this year’s GI Film Festival. The film follows the crew from the early days of WWII, when they joined the ship, to the present day, including their fight to exonerate their captain, Charles Butler McVay III.

The film’s subject, USS Indianapolis (CA-35), was flagship of the…

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USS Indianapolis, CA-35. She had been the US Fifth Fleet flagship for a long while.

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At 12:14 a.m. on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea and sank in 12 minutes. Of 1,196 men on board, approximately 300 went down with the ship. The remainder, about 900 men, were left floating in shark-infested waters with no lifeboats and most with no food or water. The ship was never missed, and by the time the survivors were spotted by accident four days later only 316 men were still alive.

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Rep. Allen West (R-FL) fomented a racial controversy with comments describing African-American voters’ tendency to support the Democratic Party as a “21st-Century plantation.” Wednesday, he carried his meme even further, telling Fox News guest host Laura Ingraham that, “I’m here as the modern-day Harriet Tubman, to kind of lead people on the Underground Railroad, away from that plantation into a sense of sensibility.” To top it off, West went on to claim that leaders such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barbara Lee or Maxine Waters were the “overseers of this 21st-Century plantation,” meant to “pacify and keep the black community firmly behind [white liberals], regardless of the failures of [their] social welfare policies.”

So, naturally, Hardball host Chris Matthews brought Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) herself on his show to respond. Waters revealed that West had advised his own brother to contact Waters in his search to find a job:

WATERS: Did I tell you his brother was here today?

MATTHEWS: Tell me.

WATERS: He has a brother that’s out of work. Well his brother came up to me, introduced himself, and told me that he’d lost his job — he’d been laid off. And I asked him if he’d called his brother [Rep. West] and he said he had. And I said, “And what did he say?”

He said, “He told me to come to the job fair. He told me to come and see you.” And so we’re hopeful that we can help his brother.

MATTHEWS: So he sent him to the plantation, as he put it?

WATERS: Well, you know, that’s a reasonable conclusion.

Allen West is a clown and a moron. Maxine Waters has integrity.

h/t: ThinkProgress