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Rescue On The High Seas
My, and my family’s, greatest adventure in our lives began on May 1st 1952, in Munich southern Germany. We boarded a train and headed north to Bremer Hafen on the North Sea for our trip to America. This was the first ship I had ever seen, and it was big – The SS General Hershey. As we started to board, my emotions took over, and I believe from there on I operated on automatic pilot for some time.
As we proceeded to get settled in our quarters deep in the belly of this vessel, I didn’t even notice that we were moving until we heard the commotion. Read the rest of this entry »
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How A Bell Tower Changed My World View
Part 2
Mankind has always moved around… travel! As time went on the mode of how we traveled has dramatically changed. Mine started as a teenager with the arrival of two wheels wow, all of a sudden I could go farther, faster, and I had fun, too. While before my world ended with looking at the horizon that was the end.
One time I climbed up the bell tower in our church and I could see a bit further my horizon expanded, my world got bigger. Soon more wheels, many wheels on steel tracks. Now I could even visit places I only heard about, read about, even dared to dream about.
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