Referring to Sean, he told me he had “already lost one of his crew”, and he didn’t want to lose another. It meant that I would have to be friends directly with the Captain. Doing something with the Captain while Sean was away seemed somehow… unusual. Mentally, I had always imagined that I was friends with Sean, and I was merely invited to join him when he did things with his father.
I got a phone call from the Captain asking if I’d like to go sailing. It seems fitting that today I should share another of my fond memories of a man whom I loved and respected.Īfter college, Sean had gone to Saudi Arabia to volunteer with the Peace Corps. Feel free to re-read “A tall ship and a star to sail her by” and “Adventures and Misadventures”. I have already shared two stories of my adventures with the Captain. (Michael, Sean, & Dan at my mother’s funeral) (The Captain wearing a ball cap and sunglasses) It is only much later in life, assuming you learn to become introspective, that you begin to appreciate how much certain adult males have influenced the man you yourself have become. At the time, you’re just out having fun pursuing adventure. You don’t realize these things when you’re a young boy. However, he was actually more like a second father to me, acting as a role model for integrity, independence, and self-sufficiency. Because Sean’s dad was the adult, and therefore the ruling opinion, I came to refer to him most of my life simply as “the Captain”. Soon we were chartering sailboats on Green Bay, and eventually we sailed on mighty Lake Michigan itself. Sean’s dad, Ernest, was the man who taught Sean and me to sail in a small, styrofoam boat called a Sea Snark. We were like the Three Musketeers, spending much of our young lives together.
#O CAPTIN MY CAPTIN MOVIE HOW TO#
The man who taught me how to sail when I was fourteen years old has died. ( “O Captain! My Captain!” is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865īy Walt Whitman, about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.) My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still
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