James Stockdale
James Stockdale

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.

James Stockdale
James Stockdale

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.

James Stockdale
James Stockdale

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.