Zumwalt, Adm

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</div><div>1986 Admiral Elmo Zumwalt (ex Chief of Naval Operations in Vietnam) begins to champion the VA case against Agent Orange exposure after his Vietnam-exposed son died of Hogkins disease & lymphoma. He also had a severely disabled grandson, This public exposure forces the VA and the US Military to begin taking the problem seriously.</div><div>
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</div><div>Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Navy</a> officer and the youngest person to serve as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_Naval_Operations" title="Chief of Naval Operations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chief of Naval Operations</a>. As an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral(United_States)" title="Admiral (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">admiral</a> and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in United States military history, especially during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vietnam War</a>. A decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed United States Navy personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32-year navy career, he launched an unsuccessful campaign for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Senate</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading" style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline;">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></div><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life and education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Naval_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Naval career</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Naval_Academy_and_World_War_II" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Naval Academy and World War II</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Command_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Command assignments</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Flag_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3Flag assignments</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Vietnam" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3.1Vietnam</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Chief_of_Naval_Operations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3.2Chief of Naval Operations</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#List_of_Z-grams" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3List of Z-grams</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Later_years" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Later years</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Death_and_legacy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Death and legacy</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Dates_of_rank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Dates of rank</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Awards_and_decorations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Awards and decorations</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#U.S.military_awards_and_decorations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.1U.S. military awards and decorations</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#U.S.civilian_awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.2U.S. civilian awards</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Foreign_awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.3Foreign awards</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Foreign_unit_awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.4Foreign unit awards</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Boy_Scouts_of_America_awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7.5Boy Scouts of America awards</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Miscellaneous" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8Miscellaneous</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">10Further reading</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">11External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Early life and education[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elmo_Zumwalt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>Zumwalt was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Francisco, California</a>, the son of Elmo Russell Zumwalt, and his wife, Frances Pearl (Frank) Zumwalt, both country doctors.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Frances was raised <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jewish</a>, the daughter of Julius and Sarah Frank of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,Vermont" title="Burlington, Vermont" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Burlington, Vermont</a>. Her family moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,California" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles, California</a>, where she grew up. She became estranged from her parents for marrying outside the faith, as the Zumwalts were Christians.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>Zumwalt, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Scout(Boy_Scouts_of_America)" title="Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Eagle Scout</a> and recipient of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Eagle_Scout_Award" title="Distinguished Eagle Scout Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Distinguished Eagle Scout Award</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting_in_California" title="Scouting in California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Boy Scouts of America</a>, attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Union_High_School" title="Tulare Union High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tulare Union High School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare,California" title="Tulare, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tulare, California</a>, where he became the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valedictorian" title="Valedictorian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">valedictorian</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rutherford_Preparatory_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rutherford Preparatory School (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rutherford Preparatory School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach,California" title="Long Beach, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Long Beach, California</a>.<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Naval career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elmo_Zumwalt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Naval career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Naval Academy and World War II[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elmo_Zumwalt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Naval Academy and World War II" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Zumwalt had planned to become a doctor like his parents, but in 1939, he was accepted to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Academy" title="United States Naval Academy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Naval Academy</a> (USNA) at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis,Maryland" title="Annapolis, Maryland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Annapolis, Maryland</a>. As a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midshipman" title="Midshipman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">midshipman</a> at the USNA, he was president of the Trident Society, vice president of the Quarterdeck Society and the two-time winner of the June Week Public Speaking Contest (1940–41). Zumwalt also participated in intercollegiate debating and was a Company Commander (1941) and Regimental Three Striper (1942). He graduated with distinction and was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioned_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioned officer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">commissioned</a> as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensign(rank)" title="Ensign (rank)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ensign</a> on June 19, 1942. He also received an honorary degree from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Tech" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas Tech" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Texas Tech</a> University.Zumwalt was assigned to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Phelps(DD-360)" title="USS Phelps (DD-360)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">USS Phelps</a>, a destroyer. In August 1943, Phelps was detached for instruction in the Operational Training Command-Pacific in San Francisco. In January 1944, Zumwalt reported for duty on board <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Robinson(DD-562)" title="USS Robinson (DD-562)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">USS Robinson</a>. On this ship, he was awarded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal" title="Bronze Star Medal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bronze Star Medal</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valor_device" class="mw-redirect" title="Valor device" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Valor device</a> for "heroic service as Evaluator in the Combat Information Center ... in action against enemy Japanese battleships during the Battle for Leyte Gulf, October 25, 1944".After the end of World War II in August 1945, Zumwalt continued to serve until December 8, 1945, as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_crew" title="Prize crew" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">prize crew</a> officer of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_gunboat_Ataka" title="Japanese gunboat Ataka" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ataka</a>, a 1,200-ton Japanese river <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat" title="Gunboat" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gunboat</a> with a crew of 200. In this capacity, he took the first American-controlled ship since the outbreak of World War II up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangpu_River" title="Huangpu River" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Huangpu River</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Shanghai</a>, China. There, they helped to restore order and assisted in disarming the Japanese.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Command assignments[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elmo_Zumwalt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Command assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Zumwalt next served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_officer" title="Executive officer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">executive officer</a> of the destroyer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Saufley(DD-465)" title="USS Saufley (DD-465)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">USS Saufley</a>, and in March 1946, was transferred to the destroyer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Zellars(DD-777)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Zellars (DD-777)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">USS Zellars</a>, as executive officer and navigator....<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Later years[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elmo_Zumwalt&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Later years" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h2>After he retired, Zumwalt wrote <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Watch:a_Memoir" class="mw-redirect" title="On Watch: a Memoir" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">On Watch: a Memoir</a>, published by Quadrangle Books in 1976. It reviews his Navy career and includes reprints of all the Z-Grams he issued as CNO.Also in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_United_States_Senate_election_in_Virginia" title="1976 United States Senate election in Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1976</a>, Zumwalt unsuccessfully ran as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic</a> candidate for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Senate</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia</a>, and was defeated by incumbent independent senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. by a 57% to 38% result. Later, he held the presidency of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Medical_Building_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Medical Building Corporation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Medical Building Corporation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milwaukee, Wisconsin</a>.While serving in Shanghai in 1945, Zumwalt met and married Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche, whose French-Russian family was living there. She returned with him to the United States. They had four children: Elmo Russell Zumwalt III; James Gregory Zumwalt; Ann F. Zumwalt Coppola; and Mouzetta C. Zumwalt-Weathers.Zumwalt's eldest son, Elmo Zumwalt III, served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant(junior_grade)" title="Lieutenant (junior grade)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">lieutenant</a> on one of Zumwalt's patrol boats during the Vietnam War. In January 1983, he was diagnosed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphoma" title="Lymphoma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">lymphoma</a>, and in 1985 it was discovered that he also had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%27s_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Hodgkin's disease" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Hodgkin's disease</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-NYT-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a> In addition, his grandson Elmo Russell Zumwalt IV had been born in 1977 with severe learning disabilities. Admiral Zumwalt and his family were convinced that both son and grandson were victims of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange" title="Agent Orange" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Agent Orange</a>, which the admiral had ordered to be sprayed over the Mekong Delta to kill vegetation and drive "the Viet Cong back 1,000 yards off the water's edge".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-NYT-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>In an article published in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a> in 1986, Elmo Zumwalt III said:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I am a lawyer and I don't think I could prove in court, by the weight of the existing scientific evidence, that Agent Orange is the cause of all the medical problems – nervous disorders, cancer and skin problems – reported by Vietnam veterans, or of their children's severe birth defects. But I am convinced that it is.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-NYT-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></blockquote>Admiral Zumwalt and his son collaborated with writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pekkanen" title="John Pekkanen" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Pekkanen</a> to create the book My Father, My Son, published by MacMillan in September 1986, where they discussed the family tragedy of his son's battle with cancer. In 1988, the book was made into a TV movie with the same name, starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Malden" title="Karl Malden" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Karl Malden</a> as the admiral and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Carradine" title="Keith Carradine" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Keith Carradine</a> as his son.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-IMDb-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> Elmo Zumwalt III died from his cancer on August 14, 1988, at the age of 42,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-NYT-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> three months after the TV movie was shown.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-IMDb-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>During his son's illness in the early 1980s, Admiral Zumwalt was very active in lobbying Congress to establish a national registry of bone marrow donors. Such donors serve patients who do not have suitably matched bone marrow donors in their families. This was ultimately a disinterested act, since his son was able to receive a transplant from his own sister, but many patients don't have close relatives who are able and willing to help in this way. His efforts were a major factor in the founding of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Marrow_Donor_Program" title="National Marrow Donor Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Marrow Donor Program</a> (NMDP) in July 1986. Admiral Zumwalt was the first chairman of the NMDP's Board of Directors.In his later years, Zumwalt resided in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_County,Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arlington County, Virginia</a>.<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Death and legacy[</h2>
Zumwalt died on January 2, 2000, aged 79, at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_University_Medical_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke University Medical Center" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Duke University Medical Center</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham,_North_Carolina" title="Durham, North Carolina" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Durham, North Carolina</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelioma" title="Mesothelioma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">mesothelioma</a>. Most likely, at some time in his naval career, Zumwalt was exposed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos" title="Asbestos" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">asbestos</a>, which was widely used on naval vessels until it was banned during the 1980s after its hazards became widely known. His funeral service was held at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Academy_Chapel" title="Naval Academy Chapel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Naval Academy Chapel</a>. In his eulogy President Bill Clinton called Zumwalt "the conscience of the United States Navy".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt#cite_note-ClintonEu-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12
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