Letter given to Waddle who apologizes to kin of missing Japanese

Letter given to Waddle who apologizes to kin of missing Japanese

HONOLULU, United States - The photo shows a letter written by the wife of a missing teacher and handed to Cmdr. Scott Waddle, former captain of the U.S. Navy submarine that collided with and sank a Japanese fisheries training ship Feb. 9. Waddle on March 16 directly apologized to relatives of some of the nine missing Japanese including Naoko Nakata, 36, wife of Jun Nakata, a 33-year-old high school teacher. The letter said, ''I am unable to recover myself from the disaster and unable to accept your apology...My husband who was to share joy and sorrow of life with me is gone forever.'' It asks Waddle to tell the truth and explain why the accident happened at the Navy's ongoing Court of Inquiry.

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