Listening To Ghosts, Second Edition is an accounting of Bob Stockton's reminiscences while coming of age in a Northeastern blue collar neighborhood, his subsequent escape to the United States Navy and his twenty year career as an enlisted man in the Cold War and Vietnam era. Written in the first person, Bob Chronicles the many adventures-and misadventures- of his Navy career in frank, candid and politically incorrect language.
This second edition, written by the author of the first edition, features new illustrations, streamlined chapters and previously unpublished content.
BOB STOCKTON was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Leaving high school in his junior year, Bob began a twenty-year Navy career in 1957. During the course of that career, Bob sailed the seven seas in surface vessels (destroyers) and has sailed in diesel electric submarines, auxiliary vessels, aircraft carriers, reconnaissance attack squadrons, and patrol gunboats in Vietnam.
Following Navy retirement as a chief petty officer, Bob earned undergraduate and graduate degrees and has worked as a shipyard welder's helper, university adjunct graduate instructor, epidemiologist, pharmaceutical trainer, small business owner, and radio host.
Bob currently receives full Veterans Administration disability compensation from exposure to Agent Orange while in Vietnam. He resides in Jacksonville, Florida, in close proximity to his three children and three grandchildren.
