USS Indianapolis Survivor

Felton J. Outland has never read a book about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II.

He's seen almost nothing that Hollywood has made of one of the ugliest episodes in U.S. Naval history.

When people talk about the horror, the sharks, the madness, he turns away.

State Department Layoffs: Oh, The Theatrics.

Back when my newspaper was tossing employees like ballast on a sinking ship, I didn’t read a single tearjerker about the copy editor in Norfolk who’d worked at the paper for almost 40 years, had just been diagnosed with cancer and begged the brass to let her keep her job. She was told to hit the road. No one cared.