A Little Traveling Music

by Vic Socotra

Overview

I AM ONE OF THE GENERATION TO WHOM THE MILLENNIALS say "Ok, Boomer," normally with a curl on their lip. I don't blame them. There is a lot going on, and I suspect they will have some major challenges to come.

I had no intention of becoming a career naval officer, but this was a way to see some of the Bucket on the government's money without having to work for another pile of money and interrupt a career for travel. I had already got a glimpse of Europe and had an inclination to see Asia before I got serious, dedicated to myself to regular working hours and a career with a family and a house in the suburbs.

This is an attempt to follow the daily events of a year that may replicate some of the emotions felt by the citizens of Rome as the Visigoths replaced them atop Europe's order. Or maybe something a little smaller in scale, when Great Caesar saw the knives come out at the Forum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798894128931
Publisher:	Vic Socotra
Publication date:	07/31/2024
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Vic Socotra was the Air Wing SIX Intelligence Officer on the 1989-90 cruise of USS Forrestal to the Mediterranean Sea. It was to be another in the ninety-odd such aircraft carrier deployments to that body of water, and was scheduled to accomplish the deterrence and contingency missions that had been common since the close of the second world war and the cold war. Something unusual occurred during this deployment that made it unique. While deployed, the Berlin Wall fell, President Bush flew to Malta to meet Soviet Leader Gorbechev, and the 45-year Cold War essentially ended.