 And as Jack begins to accumulate these accolades, you know, he gets his book published, his senior thesis gets published and becomes a minor bestseller. WTF? I was the one who was supposed to do this. And then now Jack is all over the front pages because of his actions in the South Pacific. I think one of the reasons why Joe Jr. in 1944 volunteered for what was even perceived before it happened as a kind of almost a suicide mission. It was that dangerous.