10. Remember Those Who Perished and Their Lives and Dreams
Harvard University professor Steven Biel points out that being
poorer significantly lowered your chances of getting a place on
one of the 16 lifeboats. On 25 percent of those in steerage or
third-class survived, vs. 42 percent of the second-class
passengers and 60 percent of the first-class passengers. Captain
Edward John Smith, an experienced sailor, went down with his
ship. While four of the officers survived (and never received
command of a ship of their own), none of the 34 engineering
officers (whose efforts kept the lights burning until just two
minutes before the Titanic went down) survived. None of the
eight members of the band, who played music until the end, did
either. Records of the Titanic’s passengers and crew are now
available online: One hundreds years after the ship’s sinking,
let us remember their stories and those lives cut tragically
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