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5. My family sailed on this ship in 1969. We sailed from the New York Harbor to Le Havre, France.

Wed Feb 19, 2025, 09:56 PM

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My father was a career Marine, and we were moving from Virginia to Stuttgart, Germany. It was a beautiful ship. Back in those days, the military families were moved by ships. In the early 1960's, we moved to Morocco. We lived at Port Lyautey, a military base the US shared with the French. We sailed on the SS Constitution and returned home on the SS Independence. Those were quite the luxury liners.

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