Early in the year finishing 1st grade in England, UK.... then on the SS United States, battling seas that were so large the screws were coming out of the water, then West Central Florida............. 7 years old.

the boat ride I remember.......

one moment I will never forget:

Brother and I were alone in a stateroom jumping from one bed to the other, making a ruckus, a cabin attendant came into the room, picked up the phone and she said loudly 'Captain, Captain stop the ship'

I was scared chitless, at dinner asked dad if we had slowed down, he said 'we might be going a little slower'................ chitless again!!!!!


"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867

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