Lüth nominated two crew members of U-181 for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross after this patrol.
The malcontents' proposal will be considered only if the buy-out is rejected and if the board is replaced with a new crew nominated by Mr Icahn and Southeastern.
He recoils slightly when asked about the moment he first realized he could be nominated, when the crew responded enthusiastically to a screening of the pilot (that Brown and Paulson both skipped) and favorably compared The People v OJ to Brown's favorite show, Fargo.
The following week, he assembled all of the men and demanded to know whether they would follow his orders: in response, the crew nominated a spokesman, who apologised for their actions, saying, "we humbly implore your honour's pardon with hearts full of gratitude and tears in our eyes for the offense we have given to the worthiest of commanders who has proved a father to us".
Another, more dubwise version by the same crew was nominated quite late in the day and caused something of a dilemma, but this won out in the end.
It's not as if Mr. Bourdain is a television lightweight: He and his production company, Zero Point Zero, which will continue to produce the show, have won Emmys for programs on Haiti and Laos, and the crew was nominated for an Emmy for an episode shot in Beirut during Israel's 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
At Discovery News, Ray Villard reports on a group of "psychics" that says Apollo 16 astronauts found an alien ship on the moon: A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Dennis Muren, Michael Lantieri and the special effects crew were nominated for Best Special Effects.
At the 2009 HPA Awards, the episode and its crew were nominated and ultimately won for Outstanding Audio Post TelevisionOutstanding Audio Post Television
(We shall probably see a trial of strength this autumn as parliament seeks to make an example of at least one token commissioner re-nominated from the last tarnished crew).
