By Lori Wick
Victoria "Smokey" Simmons stands silently on deck as her father's physique is diminished into the Atlantic, asking God for the power she is going to have to command the Aramis by myself. no longer eager to stay at sea without end, Smokey desires of the time while she will be able to exchange her lifestyles aboard send for a house and kin. whilst she meets one other captain, Dallas Knight, Smokey believes her dream will ultimately come real. yet conditions past their regulate and the schemes of a crafty pirate threaten to ruin this younger couple's desire for the long run.
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Halvorsen. ” Mercedes showed Col. Halvorsen the window where she had watched the planes and showed him the yard below where the white chickens had once lived. Then she tried to tell him how much his gift had meant to her. Col. Halvorsen’s eyes misted over. Oh, yes, he knew! But how could he tell Mercedes the joy that had come to him from two sticks of gum? He’d seen a World War go by, and a Cold War begin, but he’d always found in the children’s eyes the hope for a better tomorrow. No, he couldn’t explain, so he penned a wish for Mercedes on his original letter: Dear Mercedes and family!
Halvorsen softly rubbed his head. His little friend’s sweet hope was as fragile as the eggs and as precious to him as the white chickens were to her. But would he ever find the garden with the chickens? Even with Peter’s map, he couldn’t find his yard by the canal. As October days passed into November, a thick, soupy fog began to blanket Berlin’s sky. Walking home with Mama, Mercedes prayed the pilots would be safe today. She prayed, too, that the fog would lift so the Chocolate Pilot could find her chickens in the yard at last.
We stay in Berlin. Period! President Harry S. Truman June 28, 1948 The Berlin Airlift The Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949 is still one of the greatest humanitarian missions the world has ever known. 2 million people for 15 desperate months. It began three years after WWII had ended, when defeated Germany and its capital, Berlin, were carved into four pieces like a pie by the Allied countries who had conquered Adolf Hitler’s army. Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union (Russia) controlled the eastern sector of Berlin as well as East Germany.