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San Diego Reaction

NPR
Published May 16, 1996 at 11:00 PM CDT

Scott Horsley of member station KPBS talks to sailors in San Diego, where the apparent suicide of naval chief of operations Admiral Michael Boorda has hit especially hard. Boorda was well-known in San Diego, where enlisted men and women saw him as one of their own.

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