USS San Jacinto Photo, Chester Mierzejewski and An Alien Tale

Was Japanese Canadian, Ken Adachi, Suffering From Applewhite Syndrome

 by Winsip Custer CPW News Service

     Committing suicide on February 9, 1989, Canadian writer and literary critic, Ken Adachi, may have been suffering from Applewhite Syndrome according to celebrated Applewhite Syndrome expert,  Dr. Lawrence T. Sydewunder.

USN aviator, George Herbert Walker Bush
and friend.

  Adachi’s interests were not unlike Marshall Applewhite’s, but they came several years earlier and contained no attempts to hop a passing comet.  Instead, Mr. Adachi, editor for the New Canadian, a Japanese Canadian newspaper, studied English literature at the University of Vancouver and went on to teach at the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland, later rising to the position of editor of the books section of the Toronto Star in 1976.   He was fascinated with what he believed was a space alien looking into George Herbert Walker Bush’s left ear during a photo session during World War II.  Bush, a torpedo bomber on the USS San Jacinto, was believed by Mr. Adachi to have had a close working relationship with this shadowy alien that was perhaps an advanced scout from the approaching Hale-Bopp comet.     “Unfortunately, Mr. Adachi’s story which shows close associations with the Heaven’s Gate myth, was attached to the very true story of a tail gunner on another torpedo bomber aboard the USS San Jacinto, Chester Mierzejewski," said Dr. Sydewunder.  “Sadly Mr. Adachi’s motive for making up such a wildly spectacular connection and linking it with Mr. Bush and Mr. Mierzejewski , may never come to light,” said Dr. Sydewunder.
     “Mr. Adachi was fired from his position with the Star in 1981.   He was accused of plagiarism and he couldn’t adequately defend himself against the charges.   He was, however, rehired as a book reviewer and literary columnist and remained with the Star until 1989.  It is believe that he committed suicide after another accusation of plagiarism using three paragraphs from a 1982 book review in Time Magazine,” said Dr. Sydewunder.  “I could never figure out why a Toronto writer of Japanese descent took such an interest in the shadowy image in the GHWB photo, but I believe that it was a case of Applewhite Syndrome.  Somewhere along the line he either inhaled or ingested a shot of petro-chemicals that etched his brain beyond repair just like Marshall Applewhite,” said Dr. Sydewunder. “That another Ken Adachi has picked up on this story, leads me to believe that it may be his son, or that the story transmogrified within a single family unit.   My people are trying to confirm this, but to drop Mr. Mierzejewski’s  honest account of the way he remembered what happened as he followed Mr. Bush’s plane at ChiChi Jima with an “alien” gleaned from a blurred photo, leads me to believe that it’s a clear case of Applewhite Syndrome,” said Dr. Sydewunder.
     In the tail gunner position in Mr. Bush's plane, the Barbara II, was William Gardner "Ted" White, a member of a prominent Minnesota family that had hosted England's Duke of Windsor and wife Wallace Simpson at their Minnesota estate on Gem Lake prior to the war.  "Ted" White had led the Yale Political Union Debate on isolationism vs. intervention in the war between Germany and Great Britain in 1940, supporting intervention.  The Duke of Windsor and Wallace Simpson were allied with Hitler's Germany and left Gem Lake to take the Duke's position as Ambassador to the Bahamas where the two celebrities rode out the war.  The alien in Mr. Adachi photo does not appear to be either the Duke of Windsor or Wallace Simpson,  though some have seen a striking resemblance to Winston Churchill's deceased father or Germany's Arch Duke Ferdinand.  "And those who make such a claim are probably suffering from Applewhite Syndrome as well," concluded Dr. Sydewunder.