The Lusitania is less well known than the Titanic, but just as tragic. The lesson here is that it costs lives when warnings are not taken seriously. Those poor people didn’t know what hit them. Innocent victims of war. Now we have to wait for tomorrow to learn the rest of the story. 😉
My thought was I the German commander of the Uboat survived the war was he later convicted of war crimes I would think firing on civilians would be a war crime.
On a trip to Ireland a few years back, we discovered 2-3 graves out back of a little church in Kinsale containing Lusitania victims. I recall that at least one had still not been identified (or at least named on the grave).
The Lusitania was fair game; the civilians knew they were traveling into an active war zone & Winston Churchill- First Lord of the Admiralty- not only knowingly had war contraband loaded onto passenger ships he placed them in harm’s way for a purpose: to get them sunk & gin up headlines about how barbaric the Germans were.
The Lusitania is less well known than the Titanic, but just as tragic. The lesson here is that it costs lives when warnings are not taken seriously. Those poor people didn’t know what hit them. Innocent victims of war. Now we have to wait for tomorrow to learn the rest of the story. 😉
The deliberate sinking of the RMS Lusitania with so many civilians aboard was a bridge too far. Tomorrow, the details. Thank you Tara.
Good Thundering and rainy Thirsty Thursday morning to you Tara Ross!🌹💯🇺🇸🏴☠️❤️
My thought was I the German commander of the Uboat survived the war was he later convicted of war crimes I would think firing on civilians would be a war crime.
Great story so far, can't wait for the "rest of the story."..
Thank you, Tara.
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On a trip to Ireland a few years back, we discovered 2-3 graves out back of a little church in Kinsale containing Lusitania victims. I recall that at least one had still not been identified (or at least named on the grave).
Awful 😞
The Lusitania was fair game; the civilians knew they were traveling into an active war zone & Winston Churchill- First Lord of the Admiralty- not only knowingly had war contraband loaded onto passenger ships he placed them in harm’s way for a purpose: to get them sunk & gin up headlines about how barbaric the Germans were.
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