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Helen Rounds Rowan, or "Babe" as I called her, died on November 19,
2013, exactly sixty-one-and-a-half years to the day since we were
married. You might wonder why I kept track of the time so
precisely. Because at the end she kept on fighting so courageously
to spend yet another day with our four sons and me. Now that she's
gone, and I reflect on the exciting times we had, I feel compelled
to tell the story of our marriage. It's a story I hope will help
other married couples, or those just contemplating marriage, to
keep their love alive. To keep it going day after day, month after
month, year after year. At her memorial service the best I could do
was to say: "Thank you, 'Babe' from the bottom of my heart for
being such a caring mother, for being such a loyal wife, and above
all, for being such a brave buddy for all those years.
One of the most controversial and dramatic incidents in the
post-Vietnam period was the retaking of the American cargo ship
Mayaguez after it was seized by the revolutionary government forces
of Cambodia. The whole truth of what happened during the capture,
the attack, the recovery-as well as why President Ford made the
decision he did, and the human stories of the crew members
themselves. Roy Rowan details the diplomatic effort to obtain the
release and tells why the Marines, the Air Force, and the Navy were
ordered to attack.
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