There is something majestic about ships
They have brought us safely on cruises
The Bahamas, the Caribbean and Alaska were trips
We made that were unforgettable
My great-aunt Hannah boarded the 'Lusitania' at New York's Pier 55
During the first World War in May nineteen-fifteen
She was amongst the nineteen hundred and ninety-eight who did not survive
When it was torpedoed off the south coast of Ireland
On a school-journey to Rome, Genoa and Tangiers
In nineteen sixty-four I was a passenger on the 'Dunera'
The postcard that I sent home after all those years
Has survived since my mother gave it to me as a keepsake
In the Korean War my husband served on the 'USS Enoree' (AO-69)
As helmsman, he steered the ship under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay
Sailed north of the Arctic Circle and in the Pacific crossed the international date-line
He was honorably discharged from the Navy in August nineteen-fifty-four
Built in Louisiana, the six hundred and eighty-four foot 'USS New York' (LPD-21)
With twenty-four tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center
Commemorating the sixty nationalities lost on September Eleventh Two Thousand and One
Will overcome every danger on the horizon with this motto: "NEVER FORGET"!