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George Henderson was only six years old when he watched the Lusitania sink from ashore. His words to a news crew in ’94 were, “I can still sit here now…and see that great liner just sliding below the waves.” In June, 1906, the Lusitania was launched by Cunard to seize transatlantic traffic back from the Germans. She had completed more than a hundred Atlantic crossings. The Lusitania left New York for the last time on May 1 st , 1915, the same day that the German Embassy had printed a warning that travelers sailing on British ships in the war zone around the British Isles did so ‘at their own risk’. [1] The German submarine U-20 had already torpedoed three British cargo vessels off the Irish coast. Germany’s professed exclusion zone had been in effect since February, asserting emphatically that all Allied ships that invaded this zone were liable to be searched and/or attacked. [2] On May 7 th , Captain Walther Schwieger, sighted a four-stack passenger liner. A single torp

Dec. 7, 1941: "The destroyer Shaw’s forward magazine explodes after being struck during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor" (LA Times). Today, we remember the sailors who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor. *I will post a blog later about my experiences aboard the USS Pearl Harbor, but for now, let us honor these men and women.*