Two Hours

We have just passed the one hundred year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. There are many areas of thought to be focused on regarding this historic tragedy. The one I saw on TV today noted the qualities of a loving couple when given just two hours to live.  “If we had two hours left to live, how would we act? It’s a test of character.” Cited on the CBS video from Sunday Morning TV show, were the lives of Ida and Isador Straus who chose to die as they lived, together in love, rather than survival without the other. They gave up their seat on ‘boat number 8’ for the women and children aboard.

It is something to consider…the quality of life….how we live and how we want to be remembered. What would you have done had it been you on the Titanic? What journey would you have taken in your two hours?

As a sideline to the Titanic story is our local history to this event. The Marconi Station of Wellfleet, MA played its part in the rescue of the passengers through the wireless transmissions between ship and shore.

Its chronicles are held today at the Marconi Maritime Museum. This is just one more way to keep the memories alive of the passengers, their families and their stories.

Cathy

CBS Sunday Morning: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7405484n&tag=mncol;lst;2

Ida & Isador Straus : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Straus

Marconi Station : http://www.nps.gov/caco/parknews/cape-cod-national-seashore-and-the-chatham-marconi-maritime-museum-to-commemorate-wireless-technology-and-the-one-hundredth-anniversary-of-the-sinking-of-the-titanic.htm