twiggy defined mod and back home in ohio, everyone was consumed with beatles. vietnam was still a distant war though by the end that have year, 2000 american men would die in southeast asia. doug webster, the little boy with a passion for planes couldn t wait to go. in training he got a new plane he just thought that was the best. the great yeast doug often wrote home to his mother. october 31, of 65. this promises to be a long, dirty tour. but i m glad i m here. if something should happen to me, mom, just remember that. this is the way i wanted it. doug webster joined attack squadron 56 in the fall of 1965. as a navy pilot, doug was
how could they lie 20 years? what the government didn t tell webster is that her son died in a nuclear exercise. doug s plane sank to the bottom of the spaific orks carrying doug and a hydrogen bomb. respect these young men. who trained and dedicate and give their live to their country. and measure up to them, please? and stop your lying and deceit. but why didn t the u.s. government tell the whole story? fox files spent 11 months investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death. there is critical information out of the billions of classified documents the government locked away. 19656789 america was falling in love with anything british.
i can t believe he s gone. doug was her only child, a war hero. he died while engaging in a top secret nuclear exercise violating a military treaty with japan. because that have the government erased his very existence. i think anger was my reaction. and if find myself getting sentimental, i get angry. that is my defense. 85-year-old margaret webster is still devastated by the death and outraged that the truth about the fatal accident was kept secret from her and u.s. public for decades. well. the powers that be in the navy and washington are certainly i a bunk of liars.
the only thing left was nobody else was assigned a level of error or blame that then, it must have been doug s error, i can understand how she would, could feel that way. it certainly wasn t meant to be. documents at yaibed by fox files reported the accident was reported to us us atomic nfrg commission and president lindon johnson. some details of the nuclear training exercise remain a secret to this day. because it was a nuclear weapon. we had very firm restrictions on confirming or denying the events of nuclear weapons aboard ships. aboard the air station. they basically that restriction still exists. what did happen?
not told the truth the last 20-30 years that it only had a small note saying he died in operations. i think they could erase a great deal of my hurt by putting doug s name on the wall where it belongs. he earned that. letter skmz z.memories are all margaret has left of her son, doug. this is a letter i received from doug saying though i m always thinking it in my heart, particularly today i d like to say what you have not put into words, mother. i have always thought that i am what i am today all because of you. what i have somehow managed to do up until now and including what i hope to do in the future is inconceiveable without your support. margaret finds solace of happy memories of christmas