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Too funny....
10/30/2026

Too funny....

Truth...
10/29/2026

Truth...

What would you do?
10/28/2026

What would you do?

The million dollar question....
10/27/2026

The million dollar question....

You've been warned...
10/26/2026

You've been warned...

Let me know how that turns out...
10/25/2026

Let me know how that turns out...

Yep....
10/24/2026

Yep....

10/23/2026

Ruth Becker was a 12-year-old Second Class passenger traveling aboard the RMS Titanic in April 1912 with her mother and two siblings. During the evacuation, her mother and younger siblings were placed into Lifeboat 11, but there was no room for Ruth, forcing her to board Lifeboat 13 alone. From her vantage point on the open water, she watched the tragic final moments of the ocean liner. She maintained throughout her life that she clearly witnessed the ship break apart into two sections before taking its final plunge under the Atlantic.

For over seven decades, official history dismissed her account and those of other eye-witnesses. Initial American and British inquiries in 1912 concluded that the Titanic had sunk intact, largely accepting the testimony of high-ranking surviving officers who insisted the hull never failed. This narrative became the prevailing expert consensus for generations. During a 1982 Titanic Historical Society convention, when an elderly Ruth Becker spoke about watching the ship split in half, society treasurer Louis O. Gorman interrupted her, took away her microphone, and publicly told the audience she was mistaken, suggesting she had merely misremembered a falling funnel.

Ruth Becker’s account was dramatically vindicated just three years later, in September 1985, when an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the wreck 13,000 feet beneath the surface. The images revealed that the Titanic lay on the ocean floor in two main pieces separated by a vast debris field, proving that the ship had indeed snapped apart near the surface exactly as she had described. Becker lived long enough to see her firsthand testimony confirmed by science before passing away in 1990 at the age of 90.

Look twice, save a life...
10/23/2026

Look twice, save a life...

Absolutely...
10/22/2026

Absolutely...

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