5 agos 1964 anni - "I felt like I was one of the few men in the world who really understood the enormity of what was going to happen. The bad portents of the moment were suffocating. We were about to launch a war under FALSE PRETENSES, in the face of the on-scene military commander's advice to the contrary. This decision had to be driven from way up at the top." -In love and war : the story of a family's ordeal and sacrifice during the Vietnam years by James Stockdale

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“I had the best seat in the house to watch that event and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets . . . there was nothing there but black water and American firepower.” Pg .17

"I felt like I was one of the few men in the world
who really understood the enormity of what
was going to happen. The bad portents of the
moment were suffocating. We were about to
launch a war under FALSE PRETENSES, in the
face of the on-scene military commander's
advice to the contrary. This decision had to be
driven from way up at the top." Pg. 22

-In love and war : the story of a family's ordeal
and sacrifice during the Vietnam years by
James Stockdale

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