The reason for the soldiers wanting Captain McVay exonerated was they didn’t think it was fair that he got punished for something that wasn’t even his fault because they knew he didn’t zig zag, but they knew he shouldn’t have not of been punished for only that reason the soldiers knew there was more to it . So the men tried for many years trying to clear his name and no matter how hard they tried they wouldn’t get through to clearing his name. Then after the years of trying to clear his name there was a boy named Hunter Scott did a project on the USS Indianapolis and he started interview the soldiers that had survived the sinking about them and about Captain McVay. When the soldiers told him about captain McVay and about how they tried to clear
