Robert (Bob) Stockton's Blog – November 2011 Archive (6)

DAY 4-8

Had a nice visit with family in Frisco and among other things took in a major league baseball game and viewed a high school football game from the press box. High School football on a Friday night in Texas! Hooah!



DAY 9: The Trip Back

I left Frisco about 0800 or so heading east on the Dallas tollroad to pick up Interstate 635 which would lead me to US 80 and then on to Interstate 20 east. Riding directly into the sun makes it almost impossible to read the road…

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My brother Tom, his wife Sandy and  their children have called Frisco, Texas home for nearly twenty years. Frisco is one of those upscale places that one often encounters in the shadow of a large metroplex such as Dallas and is an attractive sort of mid sized town in which one can dine in upscale restaurants, shop in…

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The next morning was January 31st of 1968 which was the beginning of the Vietnamese holiday Tet. Tet signals the beginning of the Vietnamese New Year. This year it also signaled the beginning of a major coordinated offensive by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong irregulars (VC). Major cities throughout South Vietnam were hit by division strength assaults, catching the South Vietnamese and American forces by…

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I suppose it was around 1952 or so when I first met Snake Ross. I was fresh out of Navy Radarman Class "A" School and had received a set of orders to the icebreaker USS Glacier which was currently drydocked in the Charlestown Naval Shipyard being fittted out for a long Antartic deployment. Those orders…

There was an abundance of kids on Lafayette Avenue to hang with but most of the families forbade their children to have anything to do with me. I was seen as a thoroughly bad influence to most of the parents on that block. There were a few exceptions, the Schlegel family being the most notable. That family will always have a special place in my heart.



The…

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  USS Constellation had been relieved on Yankee Station in late 1967 and subsequently departed for Subic Bay. Her Air Wing had lost sixteen aircraft and twenty aircrew either killed in action or captured. Connie had finished her third eight month combat tour in as many years and both the Air Wing men and ship’s company crew were looking forward to the Christmas holiday at home with family and loved ones. Being someone who was…