The Spanish Peaks can be seen for many miles and have been used for for hundreds of years as a landmark by those passing through the area. The Ute and Comanche Indians called the mountains Wahatoya which means Breasts of the Earth or Breasts of the World.
A third was destroyed on the deck of the carrier USS Forrestal when a missile fired accidentally from another plane hit either the plane next to McCain's or, less likely, his own aircraft, triggering a disastrous fire that killed 134 sailors and nearly killed McCain.
Instead, Hunter Scott spent the better part of his early teenage years working to right a wrong committed against the captain of the USS Indianapolis: Charles B. McVay. Captain McVay committed suicide at his Litchfield area home Nov. 6, 1968, decades before Mr. Scott began a quest to clear his name.