This story was written for two reasons. Firstly, I wanted my children and grandchildren to have a story of my life. Secondly, I wanted to show to severely disabled people that with all the help available it is possible to lead a reasonable normal life providing the will and determination is there. I was brought up in Holland in a large family with three sisters and two brothers. My father earned his living by working on the trawlers catching fish in the North Sea and around North Cape of Norway in the 1930's that was hard and dangerous. Life changed forever when the Germans invaded Holland...