text: When we got our seaman's papers SS Charles W. Wooster, we headed for Greece--with a total cargo of 335 horses and enough hay and oats to feed them. I turned 18 before arriving in Greece and meant that I could possible be drafted for military service. When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my service. By the time I was discharged in 1947, I had made nine trips---the most of any seagoing cowboy. "The cattle-boat trips wre an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy." "Besides helping people, I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China.