Posted by
Ed Lilly on Friday, October 17, 2008 6:30:54 AM
An interesting human interest story at Fox News this morning:
Millvina Dean was just two months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the deck of the sinking RMS Titanic.
Now, more than 95 years later, Dean, the last living survivor of the disaster, is hoping to help pay her nursing home fees by selling artifacts of her rescue — a suitcase and other mementos expected to auction for about $5,200.
What a sad story. I can’t imagine that $5,200 will go very far toward nursing home fees for Ms. Dean. Perhaps it’s my increasing cynicism over the pending elections that makes me wonder why some of the liberal blowhards in Hollywood, who profited immensely from a little movie a few years ago that had something to do with the sinking of RMS Titanic, didn’t do something gracious like make an anonymous contribution to a trust fund established for the benefit of the very few survivors of the sinking alive at the time the film was made.
And it’s probably just my increasingly warped sense of humor that makes me wonder if perhaps the Seinfeld cast should do something similar for survivors of the Andrea Dorea / Stockholm accident.
In any event, good luck to Ms. Dean, and may she have many more healthy and happy days ahead.