While the Navy was playing the whole "He survived. No he didn't" game, his best friend married his wife during one of the "He's dead" periods. They would then get on the news and cry on local TV telling everyone how they both deserved to know the truth about what did happen. Shakespeare's "doth protest too much" had locals giving money to their donations to whatever fund or foundation they had. They were going to make some type of memorial or something... And.... aboslutely jack shit came of it. Something about those two is dirty.