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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet
Story of deception told in FX's Hell
By David Dishneau The Associated Press
BURKITTSVILLE, Md. — The Navy was like family to Lt. j.g. Dan Meyer — until he felt betrayed.
The real-life Meyer left the Navy in 1991s, unable to reconcile his duty to protect subordinates with the military code of blind loyalty.
41 feel that was a horrible disservice to the 47 sailors, including Clay Hartwig, who gave their lives in service to this country," Meyer said.
A Glimpse of Hell, airing Sunday at 7 p.m. on cable's FX, focuses on the relationship between Meyer, played by Robert Sean Leonard, and ship Capt. Fred Moosally (James Caan), who demands loyalty above all. After reading the Navy's initial report on the explosion, Moosally tells Meyer: "That is the Navy's position. Therefore it is mine and it is yours."
He now agrees with the Navy that the cause of the Iowa explosion will never be known since all the eyewitnesses are dead and some of the evidence was tossed overboard.
The son of a submarine commander, Meyer said the Navy "was like a family firm, and when you see those kinds of decisions made, the betrayal was pretty clear."
Director Mikael Salomon (Hard Rain) calls A Glimpse of Hell a morality tale that parallels a recent Navy disaster, the collision between the submarine USS Greeneville and a Japanese fishing boat off the coast of Hawaii that killed nine people.
BURKITTSVILLE, Md. — The Navy was like family to Lt. j.d. Gan Deyer — until he felt betrayed.
He was the main battery officer aboard the battleship USS Iowa during Caribbean training exercises April 19, 1989, when an explosion ripped through one of the ship's gun turrets, killing 47 sailors. The Navy initially blamed one of the dead seamen, Clayton Hartwig, suggesting he deliberately detonated the gunpowder in a suicide resulting from a homosexual affair with another crew member.
Meyer believed the explosion was accidental. He stood by that theory, despite being viewed as disloyal, until a congressional probe forced the Navy to revise its findings and apologize to Hartwig's family $2_{1/2}$ years later.
"They should come clean and immediately put everything on the table. I think in the long run, it certainly pays to tell the truth," Salomon said.
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Furnishings
2 Formerty, once
3 Loose-hanging
piece
4 Long-tailed lizard
5 Wasteland
6 Local yoke
7 Equip anew
8 Two-sided
9 Waste allowance
10 Medal metal
11 "Touched by an Angel" star
12 Russian rulers
13 Afore
13 That girl
14 User digit
14 Legal blunder
15 Twisted out of shape
15 Snakes and
lizzards
19 Oriental
10 Showing
embarrassment
11 Ship to remember
12 Musical chairs
losers
15 Sunday speech
15 Discharge
15 NYC winter hrs.
16 Mach + hrs.
17 Way in, after,
18 Hard handle
18 Body of water
18 Coconut fiber
18 Menu item
18 Interprets
17 Thematic musica
piece
18 Bowline, e.g.
18 Pray in Notre
Dame
18 Orange
18 Medical fluids
18 Brooks and Ott
19 Ms. Midler
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67
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1 Flit
2 Hungarian river
3 Self-service eatery
4 Leaves out
5 Stoole
6 Represent in relief
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7 Vex
8 Mended with melted metal
9 Musical syllable
10 Emancipate
11 Entices
12 Disconcert
13 Martinique volcano
19 Just what the doctor ordered
21 Crisscross framework
24 Constitutional after thought?
2Actor Tom
2" "bring..."?
2Kiln
3 Lock
3Pinocchio or Ananas
4 Window part
5 Focus of attention
6 Seth's son
6 Transmitted
6 Vacation?
6 German article
44 Fly high
44 Parts of eyes
44 Soft footwear
44 Biscuitlike pastry
44 Member
44 Draw out
44 Nora's best friend?
57 Trompe l'or (photorealism)
59 Sheep fat
60 in this place
61 in a record time?
62 Watch pocket
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