Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "Drachinifel" channel.

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  4.  @naverilllang  At least I'm still walking. If I'm still walking that means I can dance. Yeah, all during COVID I paid a lady $20 a night to sleep on her couch. I was there almost 3 years. This past Thanksgiving her son came home & he's a drunk. And a violent drunk. I had to go. Tried staying with a buddy of mine but I didn't know he was schizophrenic. He would be up 3 days at a time & want me to be up too. Finally by Christmas I couldn't do it no more. Might be sleeping in the street but at least I can sleep. Then 2 weeks after I leave my buddy gets killed on the Metro. He had a leash for his dog that went around his waist. He got off the train & wasn't paying attention and Daisy his little pit bull I guess stopped to sniff something & the doors closed with her inside. Train operator was too far away to notice & the train drug him all the way down the platform & he hit his head at the end & I guess the leash finally broke then. They say he was pronounced dead at the hospital but I think he was gone way b4 that. His name was Harry Riley. He was 50 years old with 2 daughters & 4 grandkids. Google: Death at Dunn Loring Metro & you'll see what I'm talking about. So yeah, that's on my conscience now too. All my family is passed away too. Dad, Mom & Step-dad, brother & my wife. All gone. I do have a daughter but haven't seen her since 2002. She was 9 years old. That is rough! And my wife dying Christmas Eve of 2015. That was rough. Still is. But what can I do? Considered suicide but I don't want to go out like that. I believe in doing something right the first time. So if I did suicide, I would be over.
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  11. YES! I just recently saw an interview with Richard "Dick" Best. This man was a pilot that was in charge of himself & two other pilots. He pulled his planes out of the dive on the Kaga in order to go after Akagi. Which he nailed while his other two planes missed. And then on the follow up strike on the Hiryu he also nailed that carrier as well. In his interview, he said that credit for winning that battle should go to the intelligence officers that broke the Japanese code & let us know what the Japanese plans were. Never did he boast about being the pilot that basically sank two Japanese fleet carriers. He viewed the entire thing as a team effort and he was just one man in this very LARGE team. A very humble man, or at least the interview that he gave made him appear very humble. When speaking about the torpedo squadrons, he got choked up & almost went into tears. You could tell that their sacrifice bothered him greatly. And I think he even claimed that although they scored no hits that they were the true heroes of the Battle of Midway. It was the only time I had ever seen him or heard him speak. But it made me think & feel that THAT ALTHOUGH THE USA won a great victory that day, that the victory came with a very high cost. And I could tell that by the way he talked about it. To me, it seemed that he accomplished what needed to be done. And that now, knowing how many died as a result of his bombing accuracy, that it wasn't something that he was very proud of doing. And as a human being it is very understandable. Although it is war, knowing I had killed over a five hundred people in one day would weigh fairly heavy on my mind. And it seemed to me Richard "Dick" Best felt that way too. Yes, he did it. But don't really want to talk about it. Not just a very good pilot but a good & decent human being.
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  41. Yeah, I actually thought we would get a video from Drach on Fletcher before we got one on Spruance but I guess I was wrong. Not disappointed cuz he's probably going by requests & I believe Spruance deserves recognition as well. But the things I've heard about Fletcher on this channel I'm fairly certain Drach thinks that Fletcher has gotten a bad reputation from some of the people in the US Navy ie: Turner blaming everyone he could instead of taking responsibility himself. Which actually would have made people think more highly of him imho. However, Fletcher was under orders to not risk his carriers unless he knew he could deal the enemy significant loses. And having his carriers at Guadal Canal for extended periods was a major unnecessary risk. Especially considering how vulnerable carriers and their escorts are during the night hours and if they are guarding a certain land mass they are easier to find. And with the Japanese having the type 93 torpedo in their arsenal that vulnerability was even more than realized at the time. And presence of the carriers would not have stopped the Japanese force that sank the numerous American cruisers during the first Naval Battle of Guadal Canal. The American Cruisers & Destroyers that night made many mistakes. And paid dearly for it. And the fact that going to action stations meant a game of musical chairs while the Japanese used those precious few minutes to tear their ships apart was also a hard learned lesson in futility. The US Navy would have to enact a lot of changes to finally be ready when the Japanese came calling again. And would also have to realize the Japanese had some very deadly torpedoes.😢
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  42. Q & A : I would VERY MUCH enjoy seeing footage of ships battling huge storms. Now we have seen a bit of the Halsey typhoons. But I'd like to see some storms from the North Sea. I mean USS Washington lost an Admiral in a small storm outside of Scapa Flow. I always forget his name too. Admiral Lee's immediate predecessor & I often wonder how well Washington would have done had that Admiral survived & Admiral Lee not been aboard at the "Big Night Battle of Guadal Canal." Idk, I personally believe that it was "divine intervention" and that it saved the lives of numerous US sailors. Admiral Lee was imho one of the smartest Admirals the US had as far as knowing his battleships. Like him turning down a possible night battle cuz of lack of training. Yes, we missed out on what may have been a spectacular victory. But with the lack if training it also could have been a spectacular defeat as well. And I totally appreciate Lee not wanting to risk his men's lives when they had not trained for such a thing. And the chance of losing lives in "friendly" fire incidents is very much more possible in a night battle. Sorry, but anyway, yes big ships in BIG STORMS!! Smaller ships in BIG STORMS. I think the reason in what is known as "the Bermuda Triangle" that there are places where the water is VERY DEEP & then not so deep. And when a ship is in a storm & runs across one of the more shallow spots that the waves grow considerably much bigger than the previous waves & that is why numerous ships have been lost there.
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