Posted on 06/12/2010 7:04:01 AM PDT by jimbo123
A French fishing vessel rescued a California teenager Saturday from her crippled sailboat in the turbulent southern Indian Ocean, bringing relief to her family but ending her around-the-world sailing effort.
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LOL! Where the brave and the bold dare to go!
I really think all the arguments about freedom, such as yours, are equating minors with adults. There is a difference.
As you posted, some 16 year olds LIED to get into the military.
First of all they had to lie.
Second of all you think that was a good thing?
How young do you want soldiers to be?
I think 18 is the legal consensus in this country, and I’m comfortable. I don’t want the “freedom” to have 16 year olds or for that matter 10 year olds in the military.
And if it’s “freedom” to send your kid out on the open ocean for months all by herself -
why not a 15? 14? 13? 12? 11? At what age would you say: “Those parents are wrong?”
It is not about freedom, in my opinion, when you are talking about minors.
Of course it seems many here would support that.
I understand now why America is where it is today.
The kids on the Mayflower were with their parents and experienced sailors, as well. No one is saying children should not be allowed to TRAVEL.
There is a lot of equivocation in the posts defending this sail. Since we don’t want a 16 year old sailing solo in deep ocean in the winter, we obviously don’t want children sailing with their parents on the Mayflower?
God spared her! I’m sure she was groomed by her parents for this. At 16 yrs you can not imagine your own mortality and mother natures cruelty.
‘”It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong M A N stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the M A N who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Emphasis mine. Not the CHILD who struggles; it is the MAN we should respect.
If this were a solo adult I would not be posting.
“”Selfish, selfish, selfish...””
Or just think of those poor children who had to trek across the great wilderness to settle this country - not to mention the hard work they were in for once they settled! Poor things. Wonder what agency stepped in to rescue them from their uncaring parents.....
I feel the same about this as I did yesterday...
“I’m encouraged that there are some kids who want to achieve great things. Consider this type of spirit vs. the video game playing, MTV watching, prescription drug abusing teens that are all too common today.”
Well I’ll grant you the French were worse the useless in WW2 and most of the post war era. I blame totally incompetent generalship in WW1 that got just about every able bodied Frenchman killed or wounded. The French military is just how recovering from WW1. If they return to form but with better generalship they will be one of the most powerful forces in the world. Poo poo the French at your own risk, however I suggest reading about French loses in WW1, heart breaking how bad generals killed millions of the best Frenchmen of that generation. An ENTIRE generation of young Frenchman killed. It is not surprising that it has taken more then a little time to undo that damage. Personally I am glad the French are back, the west will need them in the upcoming war of civilizations.
No. Without a special boat and equipment she'd be dead. The boat was weighted so it will be hard to scuttle. She was incapable of repairing her mast. And without her EPIRBs they'd still be searching for her. Fancy technology saved her and not capability.
Yes, OUR society needs to return to Godly values which produce people like this. You nailed it.
Looking at a lot of this posts I think that country, the that used to be America, is now in the dust bin of history...
It takes a village???
I agree completely. I am proud of this young lady. If you read her blog, you will see that she is brave, intelligent, articulate and quite motivated. Some of the nasty comments on FR make me ashamed. She is the type of girl that we should be encouraging, not defaming.
http://soloround.blogspot.com/
And certainly God saved her, in as much by his hand as by her God given talents.
She had a choice. She chose ego.
Her parents have 7 kids (with an 8th kid on the way) and are in massive debt. The recession has killed the father’s shipbuilding business.
This was an ill-advised and horribly-unprepared stunt for advertising sponsorship income.
Yes, lets all send our children up the mountains, into the deserts,into the oceans and onto the freeways. This is what made America great, get rid of the weakest links early.
It’s not her we’re defaming, it’s her idiotic parents.
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