Princess Cruises Blog Update: Our CEO Shares a Veteran's Story
A Soldier Returns ? as a Tourist
A Personal Story by Company President & CEO Alan Buckelew
SANTA CLARITA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A personal and poignant story from the president and CEO of Princess
Cruises was revealed today in the company?s blog. Alan Buckelew
shares his experience about returning to Vietnam on a cruise vacation
with his family, four decades after having served there in an Army recon
platoon.
?50 Essential
Experiences: The Travel Bucket List.?
He writes, ?Until a few years ago if someone had asked me to make a
bucket list of countries to visit, Vietnam would have been at or near
the bottom. I guess you could say, ?been there, done that.? I served in
the U.S. Army in Vietnam from June 1969 until June 1970. I was part of a
recon platoon called Fox Force.? Read
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His story is the third post on the blog called ?50 Essential
Experiences: The Travel Bucket List.? These and other stories can be
found online at www.50EssentialExperiences.com.
A new experience will be unveiled weekly over the next year, each
authored by a Princess destination expert ? one of the company?s
longest-serving and most well-traveled shipboard or shoreside employees.
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