Most of us are not old enough to remember the sinking of the
Titanic, since most of us were not even born, but almost everyone
has a vivid, mental picture of the last minutes in the life of the
huge, luxurious liner that was supposed to be unsinkable. We can
see the great ship, ablaze with lights and tilting severely by the
bow as the lifeboats were slowly moving away. We can only imagine
what it must have been like to sit in one of those small boats and
look back, or stand on the slanting deck when the realization that
the unsinkable ship was going down, must have struck even the most
faithful. The "women and children" mandate, though it was not
followed to the letter, is an integral part of the legend, and the
cause of more than one childhood nightmare, in which husbands and
fathers were forever lost beneath the icy black water. Since it
sank on April 14, 1912, the Titanic has been the subject of an
endless stress of books, pamphlets, magazine articles, films, and
even in the 1930s a country song was written by Roy Acuff, "What a
Shame, When That Gre-e-eat Ship Went Down." It has been 90 years
since the sinking of the Titanic, but the story, as told by Anna
Thomas, is as compelling and popular as any ever written.
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