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I've never crossed the ocean on a liner, although I've proposed the idea to my wife before as a family vacation.
But when I was 12, my brother arranged for me to join him aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the aircraft carrier on which he served. They few us out to Bermuda by plane, and from there by helicopter to the Eisenhower itself. I recall that the Eisenhower had more firepower aboard than all of World War II combined, though that might not actually be true.
On the voyage, I briefly got to see the bridge of the carrier. I recall needing to constantly wash my hands because I touched everything and everything was pretty dirty. Sleeping in the crew corridors was bizarre, because there were no windows, so no real sense of time down there. Oh, and I got tonsillitis which wasn't treated until we reached our destination in Virginia.
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