Chapter One pg 1 The End?
It is the end, in a one way...and perhaps the beginning, in
another way.
This story just presented itself to me,
quite by chance... but struck a "chord"
deep inside of me...so much so that I felt compelled to tell it.
This is the story of
The Christmas Ship.
Friday night: We were in Chicago
in early December, 2003
for an annual meeting. The local news was quietly
buzzing in the background of the hotel room
when something caught my attention...The local newscaster announced that the
Christmas Tree Ship was
docked
at Navy Pier.
It's mission...to deliver Christmas Trees,
of all things... FREE...to those who otherwise would not have one. Around
500 trees were on the ship, and the trees came from North Country
Christmas Trees in Wausaukee, Wi (Yikes, I thought, that's only 15 miles west of
us... how neat!) The announcer went on to add that the trees would be given to pre-selected city residents on
Saturday. I thought the announcer said that the ship was a U.S. Coast Guard
ship, but wasn't sure.
I didn't hear the rest of the story but the story stuck in my mind.
We discussed what a neat Christmas story this was, and thought it was neat that
the trees came from Wausaukee, and also thought it was neat that it might me a
Coast Guard ship that had delivered the trees to those needing one in Chicago.
Neat because our city has a ship builder who builds U.S. Coast Guard ships. And
that was that.
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