Events more than seven decades ago prompt this short Veterans Day meditation for Public Diplomacy.
On September 15, 1942, the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7), supporting the Guadalcanal campaign, was 170 miles southeast of San Cristobal Island in the Solomons. It was mid-afternoon on an active day of air operations -- planes launched and planes recovered. At 14:44 hours, came the peril. A lookout called the alarm: “three torpedoes ... three points forward of the starboard beam."