words of support
Parents from Kings Point have adopted a tradition
"calledtheCookieCaféinwhichparents,family,and
Few understand the work we do. Over 90 percent of everything
friends bake cookies and send them to USMMA for
in your house came on a ship like the El Faro. We will drive into
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" thestudents.Inlightofrecentevents,aparentfrom
some dangerous situations to keep our world turning. Although
USMMA contacted us to donate a Cookie Café to
few understand this, everyone in Maine can understand that when
MMA. Throughout the past week cookies were de-
fear and doubt rear their ugly heads, the people around us are
livered from around the country, from the USMMA
family enough to surround us with love and ride out the storm.
family as well as the other maritime academies. We
received 450 dozen cookies along with a donation to
From a post to his Working Waterfront blog by
purchase drinks and other supplies!
Benjamin Stevens '16 of Islesford (Little Cranberry Island)
As a result, Maine Maritime students gathered
yesterday afternoon (10/19) at Fort Madison for our
very own Cookie Café. It was a beautiful day on the
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I came to appreciate Mike Davidson as someone with a care-
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bay and students were able to relax in each other's
free demeanor that fronted a very serious and caring person. I
company while enjoying warm drinks and incredi-
came to appreciate Mike Davidson as a natural leader, some-
ble home baked cookies sent by mariner mothers,
one that I put my complete trust in all those years ago, and
fathers, family, and friends.
someone that I would gladly be led by again today...even into
MMA FACEBOOK, OCTOBER 20, 2015
the face of a hurricane.
This evening, I will pause at the assigned time to join my mar-
iner family in solidarity, with yet another prayer for the crew
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of El Faro. I will pray for my favorite striker, as well as for Dan-
ielle Randolph, Mike Holland, Dylan Mecklin, and everyone
Today we accept the loss of shipmates in the hallowed sea
else in the crew whose names and faces I do not yet know. I
We pray that their souls rest easy and free
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will pray because they are my family, and my family is hurting.
crying, laughing, mourning, smiling, as we
remember and stand together
From a remembrance of Mike Davidson, her striker,
We will be there always to help each other for
from Susan Sawyer, Deck '90
We Are Mariners Forever.
excerpt From "Mariners ForeveR"
Myles Block, MMA Class of '06E
As Mainers, we know that life on the high seas can be
dangerous, which is why we also know that anyone who
"iswillingtoconfrontthosedangersembodiesarare
type of courage and skill. That was certainly true when
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it came to the crewmembers of the El Faro. With the
O God; this is indeed a dreadful thing
unanimous approval of this resolution, the Senate ­ on
And he who hath endured the horror once
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behalf of the entire country ­ honors and pays tribute
Of such an hour, doth never hear the storm
to those we lost in that heartbreaking accident.
Howl round his home but he remembers it
And thinks upon the suffering mariners.
A joint statement from U.S. Sens. Susan Collins
and Angus King announcing the unanimous
Excerpt from "The Storm"
Senate resolution honoring the lives of lost
found in Journal of a voyage to the
crew members aboard El Faro
South Atlantic in the Ship Neptune
whalinG, 1834-36
Background photo by C Davidson.

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