Speaking of ships, here's the five-master [[non-navy) my grandfather served aboard when he left Sweden at 16 in 1911 - When he finally got to the US after serving five years aboard this ship, and weathering a shipwreck in the North Sea to boot, he joined the US Army in Lynn, MA [[he wanted to become a US citizen first and foremost), and was sent to fight Pancho Villa in 1916, after Villa murdered US citizens in New Mexico - They never caught Villa, or for that matter, ever saw him or his bunch of renegades - Grandad went to Fort Sill, OK and became part of the US Army Balloon Corps - He was discharged in 1919 after WWI - He lived to be 84, passing away in 1979 - Boy, the stories he would tell me when I was a kid were like the stuff from a Rudyard Kipling book, or Richard Henry Dana [[Two Years Before The Mast), really exciting adventures for an impressionable kid to hear!
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