Publisher's Synopsis
"How I Wound Up On a Submarine" is a story of surviving the 1960s, the threat of nuclear war, Viet Nam, racial tension, flower power, duty to country, the cold war and life. How does a kid who, by all accounts, grows up as a normal happy child is suddenly standing in the control room of a World War II submarine with a panel of valves and gauges in his hands; in control of the submarine's ability to dive and surface? The book gives a detailed account of how it came to be and what affect this has on the rest of his life.