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[aid] => mick
[title] => the sea
[time] => 2005-01-11 14:03:05
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[bodytext] => the sea the first day i wen't to sea i remember it wasn't july it was december the son of a seaman i expected to fare well but to me it was pure hell the high waves , the mist,and the fog was thick it's no wonder as a young man i got horribly sick some days were normal and we would see a whale but in the north atlantic the wind blew a gale we were on duty twenty hours each daya protecting the merchant ships on their way when the alarm went on in the middle of the night from your hammock you would run in full flight some depth charges were dropped while others we would catupult hoping to get the subamarines that were about sometimes the waves were thirty feet high and above was a very black sky when we returned to port and our duty was done it was now time to have some fun many people i met and became friends to be and a few are still out in the cold ,blue sea after three years of service i was finally free and i kissed the ground and danced with glee author hewitt hardy august 1 2004 [comments] => 1 [counter] => 154 [topic] => 21 [informant] => hughie610 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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