That exhortation from playwright Arthur Miller’s masterwork,
Death of a Salesman, is one of the most famous lines in the American theater, and it immediately came to mind when I learned that a naval officer of singular distinction, Commander William F. Bundy, USN (Ret.), a member of “The Centennial Seven,” had suddenly passed away on 15 December 2019. In that spirit, I headed north on a sunny December day a little over a year ago to attend a funeral with full military honors.
Driving from northern Manhattan to Rhode Island takes about four hours, plenty of time to retrace the extraordinary life of my USS