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POW Vice Admiral James Stockdale, spoke of the code in the book In Love and War. He wrote about the pleasures of coming up with abbreviations, a necessity imposed by the time constraints on both the message giver and receiver. "Passing on abbreviations like conundrums got to be a kind of game... What would ST mean right after GN? 'Sleep tight,' of course. And DLTBBB? 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.'"