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I had email correspondence with the author, who (if I'm recalling this correctly) once served as the Commodore of the Destroyer Squadron that Goldy was the flagship for (DESRON-17, IIRC, or was it DESRON-7?). He said he had good memories of the real USS Goldsborough, and that's why he named the ship
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Oh, the stories I could tell... The Lahaina riot...the 19th of December 1972, of North Vietnam...the Goldy making full power for the first time in ten years (1975). But there are no citations for any of these, so they come down to reminiscences: not what Knowledge (XXG) is for.
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Self-published blog entry on a primarily religious-themed personal blog. Not a suitable source in my opinion. Removing it all. --
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Meh, it's just a fictional book, and not very noteworthy. I doubt it's needed in the article.
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