Listening To Ghosts is an accounting of the author's experience growing up in a Northeastern working class neighborhood and subsequent career as an enlisted man in the United States Navy before the Navy became an instrument for social engineering experimentation. Written in the first person the author takes the reader through his adventures - and misadventures - in frank, candid and politically incorrect language.

Book Review

This is a review from Bob Flournoy of Military Writers Society of America:

"Bob Stockton's memoir of navy life, Listening To Ghosts, could have been written by a million men who served in that branch of service for as long as he did, but probably not told as well. Those million men are undoubtedly very thankful that Mr. Stockton took the time to tell their story. It is a story of duty, travel, adventure, friendship, and professionalism. It is all of the things that make one's time in the military memorable. It is also a tale of what it means to be an American guy next door who just does what needs doing. Get this book to taste the flavor of not only a naval career, but to relive your own life in the military if it so applies. If it doesn't, then you will be better off having read this book."

About the Author

Bob Stockton was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1940 and spent a great deal of his youth exasperating family and neighbors alike. His family's attempts at providing him with a quality private secondary school education was met with "studied" indifference culminating in his leaving school for a career in the Navy. Following retirement from the Navy he has earned undergraduate and graduate degrees, worked as a shipyard welder's helper, graduate instructor, and pharmaceutical trainer. He currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida in close proximity to his three children, two grandchildren and a large American Bulldog named Bowser.

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