I’m surprised that the left doesn’t have someone to file suits against these people once we can identify them for their past littering.
It was Obama’s birth certificate.
I’m not convinced it’s the real bottle.
“My sister, Lisa, remembers the vacation really well,” Tallos said. “She’s even more excited than I am. I really had forgotten all about the bottle, the vacation, so it’s interesting to hear that it’s turned up and survived.”
Tallos was a shy, quiet child, said Lisa Seabrook, Tallos’ sister. He was respectful and smart, but the two had an “unusual” childhood. His father, Wallace, was a pilot for Pan American World Airways and his mother, Wilhelmina, was a stewardess. The family traveled a lot, and the two were often pulled out of school to go on extended family vacations around the world.
That changed when their parents fell ill, Seabrook said. Tallos’ father died of pancreatic cancer and cancer of the lymph nodes in June 1973, six months before the message was written. Their mother died of lung cancer in 1975. Tallos was about 13 then.
Before she died, Seabrook said they went one last vacation - the maiden voyage of the Vistafjord, a 25,000-ton passenger cruise ship, and the largest ship at the time. It left from New York and traveled the Southern Caribbean.
One night after dinner, Seabrook said, the Tallos family gathered at the stern of the ship and helped compose the message in a bottle. Using stationery from their cabin, a pen and a Tab bottle from dinner, Tallos wrote his name and address, with a request for the finder to write back. Together, they sealed the bottle and threw it off the back of the Vistafjord.
It is the last happy memory they had as a family, Seabrook said.
“I don’t think he ever recovered,” Seabrook said. “He was always shy, but never nervous like he is now. It’s been very hard on him - he works and keeps to himself at home with few friends and no dates.
“It rocks your confidence to the core to lose both of your parents so young. We never had anyone to ask questions to - what’s right or wrong.”
I wonder if he would like to register to vote 0bama.
The Liberal spin on this:
Ocean trash is Bush’s fault!
Thank you for this wonderful post and a break from the political nonsense!
I throw bottles in the water with messages all the time- never got one back yet.
I question the timing of this find...
OH NOES IT’S THE OCTOBER SURPRISE!!
I found one once on the beach of Litle Saint Simons Island, Georgia. The note came from some class project in S. Carolina, and had been launched about 3 months earlier. I wrote back to the kid as instructed, but never heard back. It was a bit exciting to find a note in a (plastic) bottle... would have preferred to find an IBM stock certificate from 1946.
"I don't think he ever recovered," Seabrook said. "He was always shy, but never nervous like he is now. It's been very hard on him - he works and keeps to himself at home with few friends and no dates.
"It rocks your confidence to the core to lose both of your parents so young. We never had anyone to ask questions to - what's right or wrong."
THANKS A LOT SIS! ANY OHTER EMBARRASSING THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THE WORLD!
I wish the man well. Perhaps he will venture out more. No doubt it was difficult to lose your parents at a young age. This found bottle may be a turning point to a brighter future.
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE FOUND - TWICE!
First in Scotland then in Norway.
On the 18th September 2006, my mother found a message in a bottle on a beach near Durness village in the far north of Scotland. The message was written by Finnley (age 7) from Australia while he was on holiday with his family in Durness. The message had only been in the sea for 1 week. I took it to Durness Primary School. Mr Bruce's class were excited about the message. Every pupil then wrote a short message and drew a picture on my handmade paper. I also wrote a message. Everything, including Finnley's original message was put back in the bottle and thrown into the sea again.
I made contact with Finnley in Australia to tell him what we had done. His family were delighted at the news."