The Right Thing -CMDR. Scott Waddle (ret)

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"I'll kill you before I allow you to take the stand to testify without immunity," my lawyer Charlie Gittins railed.  "On second thought, I won't have to - you'd be killing yourself!"

I smiled slightly at the defense counsel's impassioned plea.  I knew Charlie wanted to protect me, but I felt compelled to take the witness stand.  I believed that the truth should be known about the sorrowful events in which I had played a part.

"I have to, Charlie.  I did it. Nine people are dead because of me."

In the span of eight minutes on February 9, 2001, Navy Commander Scott Waddle's life was forever changed.  He gave the order to perform an emergency maneuver that inadvertently caused the nine-thousand-ton nuclear attack submarine he commanded to rip up through the water and smash into the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat.