"Somehow it just happened," he explains. "These guys there at Hungnam listened to their better angels and did what I like to 
say was the right thing, for the right reasons, in a very difficult situation."

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It took several days to get everyone aboard the ships. The refugees huddled together on the shoreline, waiting <a 
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for their turn.

Among them was a then 17-year-old Han Bo-bae with her mother.

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didn't think of anything else other than we need to get on this ship or we will die.

"We didn't know where it was heading, but it didn't matter. We only knew that we might live if we get on the ship."

But leaving her hometown was difficult.

"Looking at the beach moving away from me, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/botegabenonguilyu/" target="_blank">보테
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Conditions on board each of the ships were, to say the least, difficult. Refugees were crammed between vehicles, boxes <a 
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There was no food or water. The biggest ship, the SS Meredith Victory, was designed to carry 60 crew at the most. Now it 
had 14,000 refugees - as well as the cargo.
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