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My dad escaped the iron curtain by hiding aboard his best friends ship (they were merchant marine officers), and a week into their voyage when they stopped near Istanbul, they shimmied down the anchor line and swam 4 miles to the shore in freezing waters, TL;DR version.

I want to honor his memory by writing a book about what lead him to that moment and about that night specifically when they made their escape.

So AMA? I've grown up hearing the story many times, and before he passed I sat down and mined it for as many details as he could recall.

Any questions in this post will help me in writing the book specifically, what people want to learn about and what interests people about the story.

My dad escaped the iron curtain by hiding aboard his best friends ship (they were merchant marine officers), and a week into their voyage when they stopped near Istanbul, they shimmied down the anchor line and swam 4 miles to the shore in freezing waters, TL;DR version. I want to honor his memory by writing a book about what lead him to that moment and about that night specifically when they made their escape. So AMA? I've grown up hearing the story many times, and before he passed I sat down and mined it for as many details as he could recall. Any questions in this post will help me in writing the book specifically, what people want to learn about and what interests people about the story.

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Cool edit, bro.

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stay mad, mossad!

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Ediths make you sthuper sthmart, esthpethially when sthomeone pokes holes in your unbelievable sthory.

And if that doesn't work, just result to insults.

Classic Liberalism.

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LOL - "pOkEs HoLe" - gets disproved with hydrometric data from strait of istanbul - is le mad because what he thought was wrong, isn't

Honestly if you didn't kvetch so much, I'd have a much harder time figuring out you were a communist shill.

also, and I quote the experts:

How cold does the water have to be to put a person at risk for hypothermia? Even water temperatures as high as 75 and 80 degrees F (24 and 27 degrees C) can be dangerous, but it would most likely take much longer than 15 minutes to become debilitated. There is no set time for when hypothermia will set in, but generally the colder the water, the faster it happens.

Oh shit he swam for some 45+ minutes, I'll have to check my notes, I don't think he had a watch.

How does it feel knowing you're not just a failure, but also a megafaggot? Thank you for making me smile today - this was outstanding faggotry.