Experience

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  self ermployed; antiquarian book dealer, historian, writer.

  • Jacksonville, Boston and Cleveland since retirement.

  • "Sir" sometimes," Frank" mostly

    • Jul 1971 - Present
    • Jacksonville, Boston and Cleveland since retirement.

    I served: NAOC (PB1-W) in VW-2; pilot (JD-1) in VU-5; Metro on USS Intrepid CVS-11, a/c (WV-2 Super Constellation) in VW-4; O-in-C and a/c at NRL Det. I lived in: Newport, Chicago, Patuxent River, Pensacola, Hutchinson, San Francisco, Atsugi, Fukuoka, Cubi Pt., Monterey, Norfolk, and Orange Park (near Jacksonville). I have driven across country at least 50 times and visited every state except Alaska. I was a world traveler while in and after the service.

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  Freelance Writer

  • Freelance Author

    • 1937 - Present

    I have been a voracious reader since I was eight. As I matured my interest turned to history and biographies. Through them I developed a strong suspicion of the validity of Conventional Wisdom. In 1970 I discovered that beginning in the 1930s racist politicians and ignorant officials had made a weed that grows wild in Temperate Zones this nation's 2nd most lucrative crop. My second article concerned a lynching that had created a sensation throughout the nation--two innocent white men were gruesomely disposed of in front of 6000 spectators and California's governor thought that was a great idea--in 1933! There were a few others and I firmly believe that finding effective solutions to festering problems can only be found if one knows how they originated. That is why I wrote Blind Nation. The inconvenient facts are that our direct involvement began long before CW will permit the public to confront. I took it off the market because it badly needed editing, but the facts are there.We are just beginning to re-learn the truth behind our invasion of Iraq but CW ignores inconvenient facts of our Vietnam involvement. Then there is the Cold War, of which I was an active participant for 7 months in 1959. One of 12 P2V-7s in VP-19 and operating from Iwakuni MCAF half of our flights were routine patrol monitoring shipping in the Sea of Japan. Prior to the other half were I, as a/c, was briefed by a man a Navy captain's uniform and he told me that our national defense would be enhanced if I took my P2V into areas that involved penetrating our enemies' airspaces. Their was never a direct order and I tried to comply with his wishes. My 9-man crew did not know why we faced sudden death by enemy action on two separate occasions. .Roughly 30 a//c were lost over the years in similar actions. Those enemies knew exactly what was going on; only the American public was kept in the dark. That is the way it is with secret wars.