USS MIDWAYUSS MIDWAYI stood on that deck many a day and night for flight ops. Was there for Frequent Wind. It was terribly depressing, morale was at rock bottom. As they had sent all of the birds to Subic Point NAS, I volunteered to go back and help maintain the birds in case we went back in to save Vietnam.
Of course we did not and that is a stain on us. Then the hippies added the stain of Jimmy Carter on top of that!