There is a story that surrounds the sinking of the Lusitania that involves a man with a gun calmly fighting off panicked men who were desperate to escape the rapidly sinking ship. As those men frantically hurried for the boats, they cast aside women and children and some took life belts from the less fortunate. The man with the gun and others like the implacable Alfred Vanderbilt remained on board, passing out flotation devices and calming those who hoped for rescue as best they could. As the Lusitania thundered beneath the waves just 17 minutes after being torpedoed, the helpful and hopeful were overwhelmed by the sea and those all too eager to leap off the ship they had boarded not that long before.
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