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...Murray is the only civilian member of the commission, which included officers from all of the branches of the U.S. Armed forces. He says he initially felt ambivalent about serving on it, because of the huge time commitment it would take--he was just beginning to settle in at the K-School--and also because he thought it would be a depressing assignment...
...enthused about it," Murray said. But he was won over in part by the substantial leeway he believed the commission would have in exploring the catastrophe. "It wasn't a commission whose job it was to say that everything was O.K., but rather a commission that looked at the circumstances and said what it honestly found to be the case...
...investigation, Murray, his four counterparts and 15 aides "spent two weeks, day and night, in a room in the Pentagon. There was a terrific lot of arguing, but in the end there was agreement on what we wrote," Murray recalled...
...Basically the argument was: what really happened and how to explain it both accurately and fairly to the people involved," Murray said...
Another central issue was whether to recommend punishment in principal for the commanders at fault. While the commission held the ultimate responsibility for such a catastrophe lay with those in charge, they did not recommend that Reagan levy any punishment. "There is not evidence to prosecute successfully," said Murray, adding. "There should not be court martialing of some people while other people escape." Reagan eventually accepted this recommendation...