to much for Charles and Anne, they felt it wasnt a good environment for their new son, Charles issued a statement to the press:Mrs. Lindbergh and I have made our home in New Jersey. It is natural that we should wish to continue to live there near our friends and interests. Obviously, however, it is impossible for us to subject the life of out second son to the publicity which we feel was in large measure responsible for the death of our first. We feel that out children have the right to grow up normally with other children. Continued publicity will make this impossible. I am appealing to the Press to permit our children to live the lives of normal Americans.One of the first things Charles did after the birth of Jon was buy a huge German Shepherd, which they called Thor, as a watchdog. Thor could open and close doors on command, take orders in a whisper, carry messages back and forth between Charles and Anne, retrieve objects, take the other family dogs of a walk with a leash, leap fences, and, most importantly, guard the family. The dog was very protective of Anne and the baby. The dog had been bought to protect the family at the Hopewell house in New Jersey, but the house held to many painful memories; so they eventually gave it to the state as a home for boys. They moved in with Annes mother Mrs. Morrow, but quickly realized it would only be a temporary stop, since both Charles and Anne needed privacy and a home of their own. In the summer of 1933, they left on a Pan-American Airways flight to the North Atlantic. The purpose of the flight was to provide the scientific data necessary to help Pan-America plan regular passenger service across the Atlantic. The Lindberghs were gone for almost six months. They went to Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Russia, and Britain, They then flew to Spain, West Africa, Brazil, and across the Caribbean to Miami and then New York. Despite their difficulties, the flight was beneficial b...
