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As someone who didn’t even know what a merchant marine is i might not have picked up this intriguing memoir had it not been recommended to me by a friend

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Schuyler about a decade later than the author

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Very impressed but i was left disappointed by the abrupt ending which seemed purposely vague

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Kevin mccarey delivers a simultaneously touching and hilarious deeply personal memoir of the last era of “stickship” mariners

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He observes with clear eye and keen ear of the actions motives of the generation that followed the heroic but unheralded ww ii cohort of merchant seamen

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Like all good stories the line between truth and embellishment is blurry from tears of laughter

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At the end of the prologue kevin mccarey quotes mark twain “sail away from the safe harbor…explore

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On his first assignment aboard the ss free america the ship is supposedly destined to stop in vietnam but after a falseemergency fiasco the ship instead goes to korea