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On Board a Warship, His Only Protest Weapon Was through a Typewriter

At the height of the Vietnam War, Richard L. Brocaw had the difficult job of categorizing the losses of men stationed on board the U.S.S. Yorktown. As a data processing technician for the U.S. Navy, Brocaw wrestled with a sense of being involved yet oddly disconnected from the war-and, like so many service members, powerless to do anything about it, let alone protest. What he was able to do was write-feelingly, frankly, an...