Listening to Ghosts

“Pop Was Bursting His Buttons About His Oldest Son Being In The Navy And Nothing Would Do But For Me To Don My Dress Blues While The Old Man Paraded Me Around All Of His Haunts To Show Me To His Fellow Bus Drivers And His Bar Buddies. I Wasn’T Too Unhappy With This Dog And Pony Show As I Had Always Wanted To Please The Old Man. Mom Was Gratified That I Had Actually Finished Something That I Had Begun. I Played It To The Hilt Telling Everyone That The Navy Was The Home That I’D Been Looking For And That I Was Certainly Destined To Make A Twenty Year Career Of It. My Vision Of The Future As A Career Navy Man Was To Change Many Times During That Span Of Time.” -Excerpt From Listening To Ghosts Listening To Ghosts Bob Stockton’S Memoir About Growing Up In A Working Class Neighborhood In Trenton New Jersey And How He Escaped To The U.S. Navy Details The Lively Ups And Downs Of A Career Navy Man As He Comes Of Age And Learns Invaluable Life Lessons Both Personally And Professionally. One Of The Few Navy Men Who Has Served In The Submarine Navy (In Diesel Electric Submarines) Bob Also Served In The Surface (Destroyer) Navy In Vietnam In A Patrol Gunboat And In The Aviation Navy On Carriers And In Reconnaissance Attack Squadrons. The Book Is Divided Into Two Sections “Trenton” And “Haze Gray And Salt Spray.” Each Section Boasts Short Highly Readable Highly Entertaining Chapters That Vividly Span The Early 1940S Through 1977 When Bob Gladly Retires From The Navy. He Comments “Listening To Ghosts Takes Readers Back To A Time Before The Navy Became A Vehicle For Social Engineering. It Chronicles My Adventures - And Misadventures - In Frank Candid And Politically Incorrect Language.”