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The reactions I've been getting (and I'm sure will be getting for days
to come) are generally missing the point.
To my mind at least, this is not a comment about the deaths of the
Russian sailors so much as a condemnation of the system that killed
them.
These guys were victims of a system that has a long history of
sacrificing safety for political and economic gain.
Why they died is a direct result of an ongoing power struggle in the
upper levels of the Russian defense establishment for control of
military spending.  How much was blatant disregard for safety and how
much purposeful we'll never know.
In the end however, it is the same evil that Remarque talks about in All
Quiet on the Western Front- old men preying on the sense of adventure of
youth in order to fulfill their frustrated fantasies.
I have seen too much evil and brutality in my line of work to ever allow
myself to lose sight of the fact that my sense of humanity is the only
thing that separates us from less articulate beasts.
Wendell G




Jack Haller wrote:
> 
> You are right about one thing, it is absolutely tasteless.  What happened to
> your humanity?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wendell grogan <docgrog@ya*.de*>
> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> Date: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:26 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [AtlanticDiver] Russian Disaster
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