Andre Carson: “Today several of my colleagues and I join 12-year-old Hunter Scott in his outstanding efforts to correct an injustice…”

“Today several of my colleagues and I join 12-year-old Hunter Scott in his outstanding efforts to correct an injustice dealt to the skipper and crew of a World War II battle cruiser. The U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk just before the end of the war, in the U.S. Navy's worst disaster at sea. Hunter Scott, a 7th grader at Ransom Middle School of Cantonment, Florida, researched the story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis as a school history project. This week, today, he came to Washington to ask Congress to exonerate Charles McVay, the ship's captain, who was court-martialed for the loss of the ship. Hunter has been able to do what adults have been unable to do for 53 years. He has drawn attention to the story of the Indianapolis, and now we are preparing to give the crew and captain of the ship the recognition that they so rightfully deserve. The U.S.S. Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1945 after delivering the components of the atom bomb to Tinian Island in the Pacific.”