By Jim Hand
It’s been 52 years since Pamela Wojnar and her family sailed on the ocean liner SS United States from New York to England, but she still has some vivid memories.
There was the day her older brother secretly slipped into the first class section of the ship and the crew wouldn’t let him back into the passenger class.
There was the shipmate who kept bringing her younger brother peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from his private food supply, even serving one on a fancy silver plate.
And, of course, there was the excitement of a 6-year-old seeing the ocean on the fastest ship of its kind and running around a deck that the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Harry Truman and John Wayne traveled on.
So it’s no wonder that the North Attleboro woman is working with a group of people who saved the ship from becoming scrap metal and wants to rehabilitate it through their organization, SS United States Conservancy.