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By Mike Gordon
Advertiser Staff Writer
Five months after the humiliating end of his Navy career, Scott Waddle found unexpected forgiveness in the last person he had asked. Himself.
It came during the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur. Waddle, captain of a U.S. submarine that killed nine people when it sank a civilian Japanese vessel, had been invited to Temple Shalom for the Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was asked to reflect upon the concept of atonement. There were 1,500 people in the temple.
He stood before them, he said last week, “to begin my own personal healing.”.
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