The passing years steal our youth from us
I hear the ice cap is now melting into the sea
So, I’m glad I went North so many years ago
I’ll always have that as a treasured memory…

Your words are stark, harsh, and very real considering the state of our planet with regard to climate change and such. Thank you for sharing your experience, Fee. Love and peace to you,

Regis. 🌳🌲🍁

I wish I could have seen it before it began to end.

Rebecca

You have now captured in a poem the wonderful memory of your service to the Coast Guard (Canadian?) at such a young age. When I was that age, my only two choices were college or Vietnam. I chose college. But serving in the Armed Forces can take one to wondrous places.

My friend, Herb Morrison (of Hindenburg fame), told me that his greatest accomplishment was also going to the North Pole, but he flew there, not having to brace against the cold, the wind and the desolation for months to get there and then come back.

I wrote his story in an article beyond the North Pole and the Hindenburg as much of it as I knew in the three years that was the treasurer and he was the president of our community.

https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewArticle.asp?id=65988

Ron