Question about Zumwalt's memoir

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Question about Zumwalt's memoir

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1rocketjk
Aug 16, 2018, 2:38 pm

Greetings! I am about to begin reading Elmo Zumwalt's memoir, On Watch. Has anyone read this book and/or have any insight into Zumwalt's reliability as an observer/reporter of history? Obviously, he would know best what his own opinions and experiences are, but otherwise, do folks think he has a keen and relatively unbiased eye about events?

Thanks!

2varielle
Aug 17, 2018, 2:34 pm

I'll be interested to hear what others say. I knew someone who served with Zumwalt's son in Vietnam. If I recollect correctly the son died from complications of exposure to agent orange.

4rocketjk
Sep 29, 2018, 7:59 pm

For anyone interested, I finally finished this memoir last week and found it very interesting, if quite detailed and somewhat slow in places. You can see my comments in the Current Reading thread.