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Peggy Noonan has terrific piece in todays WSJ that contrast the Corp's handling of an accident with rest of society.
I think we need to insist that large governmental organization and business have chief ethics/accountability officer, and if former Marines had the job, perhaps we might making some progress in restoring faith in our institutions.
Read the restIt is late in the morning one day last December. A plane is in distress, it's lost one engine and now two and it's going down, and people on the ground hear the sound, look up, say, "That's going awful low," and whip out their cellphones. You could see the pictures they took later on the news.
It sounds like Chesley Sullenburger and US Airways Flight 1549, but that was five weeks later. This was the military jet that went down in San Diego; this was the story that ended badly.
Then this week it took a turn. And looked at a certain way, the San Diego story is every bit as big, and elements of it just as deserving of emulation, as Sully saving all souls when he put down in the Hudson.
I think we need to insist that large governmental organization and business have chief ethics/accountability officer, and if former Marines had the job, perhaps we might making some progress in restoring faith in our institutions.