About the Author
Gulf of Tonkin--October 2007
Earl J. Gorman, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate (1964), fought on the
battlefield of Vietnam during 1965-1966 as a Marine Corps artillery
officer. After receiving his Juris Doctor degree from The John Marshall
Law School in 1972, he worked as an attorney in private practice, as a
financial futures trader while a member of a Chicago commodity futures
exchange, and as an executive with a recycling company. He and his
wife,BJ, live in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. They have 3 grown children  
and 3 grandchildren.