What Has Become of Captain McVay

              "Captain Charles Butler McVay III was a good man and a great captain." McVay's crew stated. McVay had been receiving terrible letters from people who lost loved ones to the sinking of the Indianapolis. At Christmas time, people would send him horrid letters saying that he had ruined their Christmases forever because of the loss of husbands and sons to the fateful sinking. When McVay attended a survivors get-together, he expected his crew to hate him, too. His crew actually welcomed him in with joy and told him that it was not and would never be his fault. McVay replied saying that he deserved what came to him. When his beloved wife Louise died of lung cancer, McVay was heartbroken. He spread her ashes along the Gulf of Mexico. He remarried a girl named Lillian Smith and they moved onto a farm in the countryside.
           On November 6, 1968, McVay spent the morning helping out on the farm. Later in the afternoon, their housekeeper, Florence Regosia, noticed that McVay had not touched his lunch. She went up to his room and found an empty gun holster on his night table. She looked to see if his car was in the garage when Boom! She heard the shot of a gun. Regosia ran to the back porch to see McVay, with a gun in his right hand, crumpled on the porch. His .38-caliber revolver was in his right hand and his keyring was in his left. On his keyring was a small toy sailor that he'd gotten as a child which was a good-luck charm to him. McVay died a couple hours later while in the hospital. His ashes were spread along the Gulf of Mexico, right where his true love Louise's ashes were.
         I feel that Captain McVay did not deserve the fate that he got. He was going through a tough time already with losing his crew, ship, title as a captain, and losing his precious Louise. With all of the hate mail that was a lot to take in at all around the same time. I feel that if McVay was not blamed in the first place, then none of this would have happened. (Except for Louise. The Navy could not have stopped that.) I was appalled  that all of those people would send hate mail, especially during the holidays. If I were in those people's shoes, I would have sent support mail to Captain McVay instead on hate mail. I truly think that Captain McVay did not deserve the treatment that was portrayed towards him. McVay was treated kind of like how Margot was treated in Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day. Margot was treated unkindly just like how McVay was treated unkindly. All said, McVay was a good man.