Posts Tagged ‘lifetime experience’
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 »
