[MinuteGal]

It's remarkable the grip on the imagination that the Titanic event continues to maintain on people even though a century has passed since the sinking.

I think everyone reading about it or viewing images of it feels a personal imprint on a variety of one's own human emotions.

I also think that the story of the doomed Titanic surpasses even the attack on the Twin Towers, as epic a tragedy as the New York catastrophe was.

Maybe this is because the personal accounts and stories of Titanic survivors plus the actors in films portraying life and death aboard the ship personalized the Titanic saga much more than the accounts and videos of 9/11.

I'd be interested in what other Freepers feel is the reason the Titanic story never seems to lose its appeal to the imagination and to the heart......even after a hundred years have gone by.

Leni

[re_nortex]

I'd be interested in what other Freepers feel is the reason the Titanic story never seems to lose its appeal to the imagination and to the heart......even after a hundred years have gone by.

I hope I'm not passing along an urban myth since so many are associated with Titanic, but here goes anyway. I heard back in 1962, during the 50th Anniversary, that the term Titanic was recognized even in the remotest parts of the world. Along with Coca-Cola, that word was just as well known.

I think part of the reason for why it became such a big story a century ago was that mass communications was really starting to reach a global audience. It was the story of that era. Although we rightfully mock what the New York Times has now become, it reputation as the "Newspaper of Record" was cemented by its excellent coverage of the sinking.