They say reflections in the wake of an aircraft carrier are many.Leaving me to wait, a war ship sailed away with its crew of 5,000—and 80,000 tons of floating airbases-- to conduct flight operations from Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam. The year was 1969, and after 14 years of marriage to a navy man, this was not the first ship that had sailed away with my heart and soul mate.
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