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He Came Back: The Dead Sailor Who Walked Into His Mother's Arms
He Came Back: The Dead Sailor Who Walked Into His Mother's Arms
A laminated federal merchant mariner credential, salt-roughened and issued August 2016, turned up on a fence post three blocks from the wharf - the card belonged to a man officially declared dead fifteen months earlier. How did a legally dead twenty-six-year-old sailor’s ID appear deliberately placed where the people who knew him would find it, and what did that gesture mean for the family who never stopped waiting?
In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events from the Ardmore Star’s October 2017 sinking through the…
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