[78-L] Titanic Songs ENOUGH ALREADY

[David Lennick]

It's also the direct cause of one of the worst movies I've ever endured..no, 
not Titanic or A Night to Remember, but The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

dl

On 4/9/2012 6:00 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
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> It was mainly because of two reasons: one was the fact that this monstrosity was proclaimed over and over again to be "unsinkable." Second was who was on board: the wealthy hoi polloi of industry and upper crustian status. People magazine would have drooled over a story like that.
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> But you are correct - the Titanic was not the only ship to sink. And here's a perfect example. A similar disaster occurred only a year-and-a-half later on a vessel called the Volturno. This was the ship my family was coming to America on from Russia. You've never heard of it because there were no rich people on board and the ship was nothing extraordinary. But it was big news in 1913, big enough to monopolize the pages of the NY Times for several weeks. I wrote an article about this, which was published in the Jewish Journal in 1998. Here's a link:
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> http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~daamen1/volturno/saga.htm
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> To be perfectly selfish about it, I am grateful for the Titanic's sinking because it enabled emergency communication devices to aboard the vessel that sank with my family on board. I would not be here today if not for those measures being installed in all ocean liners after the Titanic calamity.
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> Cary Ginell
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>> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:45:54 -0400
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Titanic Songs ENOUGH ALREADY
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>> Am I the only person in the world who finds Titanic obsession sick beyond
>> belief? Was this the only ship that ever sank in the history of the world?
>> Sorry, but I have to let it out. As for the movie, I stood 4 minutes of it till
>> I heard DiCrapio's so-called acting and said "That's it, folks". Yes it was a
>> tragedy. It sank. People died. People died when the Hindenburg exploded. People
>> died in mine disasters. People died in WWII. People died the other month when
>> an idiot captain ran a luxury liner aground. People die because dictators are
>> dictators. Will someone PLEASE explain what was so special about this one
>> particular tragedy that raises it above others?
>>
>> Ready to receive brickbats.
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>> dl