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To: Blueflag

Lest you skeptics ‘damn’ the young lady for her ‘pain’, read the below passage inre ‘Coming to America’:


ships were not required to carry doctors. Anyone that died during the sea voyage was simply dumped overboard, without any religious rites.

Belowdecks, hundreds of men, women and children huddled together in the dark on bare wooden floors with no ventilation, breathing a stench of vomit and the effects of diarrhea amid no sanitary facilities. On ships that actually had sleeping berths, there were no mattresses and the berths were never cleaned. Many sick persons remained in bare wooden bunks lying in their own filth for the entire voyage, too ill to get up.

Another big problem was the lack of good drinking water. Sometimes the water was stored in leaky old wooden casks, or in casks that previously stored wine, vinegar or chemicals which contaminated the water and caused dysentery. Many ships ran out of water long before reaching North America, making life especially miserable for fevered passengers suffering from burning thirsts. Some unscrupulous captains profited by selling large amounts of alcohol to the passengers, resulting in “totally depraved and corrupted” behavior among them.


OH SORRY ‘Miss reporter’, I mistakingly used an example from the ‘Potato Wars’, the plight of the IRISH Immigrant coming to the ‘New World’.


48 posted on 02/01/2013 8:50:15 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: xrmusn
That was the mode of transit used by some of my immigrant ancestors, the bulk of whom were Famine Refugees.



Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

66 posted on 02/01/2013 8:57:27 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: xrmusn
OH SORRY ‘Miss reporter’, I mistakingly used an example from the ‘Potato Wars’, the plight of the IRISH Immigrant coming to the ‘New World’.

"....but we don't want the Irish."

132 posted on 02/01/2013 10:09:15 AM PST by dfwgator
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