Eight musicians have been quietly playing music at the last moment, and the flying notes reflect the dignity and nobility of human beings who will not bow to the fierceness of nature until their death. As Hemingway wrote in The Old Man and the Sea, "People are not born to be defeated. You can defeat his body, but not his soul. Those who chase sharks can chew the big fish dragged by the old fisherman's boat to the bone, but they can't chew away the sailor's invincible spirit. This is the flame of human soul and will, and the whole sea can't put it out. "
Today, more than 90 years later, people are still amazed at how the musicians and crew of Titanic can have such great courage and stick to their duties in the face of the imminent extinction and sudden death of seawater. How can you have such a noble humanitarian sentiment, giving the lifeboat to children and women and keeping the last moment for yourself? According to statistics afterwards, 76% of the crew members were killed, which exceeded the proportion of all passengers in the first class, second class and third class on board. The crew on the ship are more qualified to escape than the passengers, but they give the opportunity to others and keep the hopelessness for themselves. Moreover, not one crew member or two sailors did this, but more than 900 crew members, waiters, firefighters and even chefs chose this way; Such a large group can do this. Today, it seems that, just like the mysterious sinking of that huge ship, the human spirit has surfaced forever, which is simply a miracle!
According to the later investigation, only the crew of lifeboats 6 and 2 jumped in, but they were immediately found by the responsible officials there and told them to come out. Without saying anything, they obeyed orders and returned to the deck.
Danny Allen Butler, the author of Never Sink, lamented: "This is because they are born with the ideal that responsibility is more important than other considerations, and responsibility and discipline are synonymous. In the hours before the sinking of the Titanic, this ideal of responsibility and discipline proved to be the most powerful temperament and could not be eroded. "
It was this sense of responsibility that made the fireman farman Cavell go back to Boiler Room 4 when he thought he might have left a little early to see if any other boiler workers were trapped there. It is this sense of responsibility that makes the signalman Ron keep firing flares and shaking Morse signal lights on the deck, no matter how hopeless it seems. It is this sense of responsibility that makes Hemming, the boiler worker assigned to the lifeboat as a rower, give this opportunity to others, stay on the deck and unload the canvas boat at the last minute; It is this sense of responsibility that made the operators Phillips and Brad stick to the last moment in the telegraph room. Captain Smith told them they could abandon the ship, but they still didn't go. They continue to knock on the keyboard, knock on the end of life, send telegrams, and have the last hope. It is this sense of responsibility that makes Chief Engineer Jambers and all the engineers work hard in the engine room, even though they know that there is no time to board the deck and lose any chance of escape. It is this sense of responsibility that makes band conductor Henry Hartley and other musicians play brisk jazz and solemn religious hymn "God is with us" until the sea brings their lives and songs to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. ...
At that time, billionaire John Jacob Asd asked the lifeboat official if he could accompany his pregnant wife Madeleine on board. After the sailor said "women and children go first", he returned to the deck like a real gentleman and sat there quietly until the ship sank and the fallen chimney smashed him into the Atlantic Ocean. At that time, Asd had assets of over $87 million, which, together with his invention patents, was worth more than 1 100 million. He is the only billionaire on the Titanic and one of the richest people in the world. His assets can build 1 1 Titanic.
According to historians, when the Titanic was about to sink, Astor helped Madeleine to the side of lifeboat No.4 and explained to the crew that his wife was very weak. Can she take care of her on board? The crew replied, "No, sir, men are not allowed on board unless all the ladies get on board first." Astor said nothing, took off his gloves and threw them to his wife. Then he retreated to the deck and watched his young wife who was pregnant for five months get on board. He stood on the deck and lit a cigar when the boat drifted away. Auguste Wakeman, the barber who survived the boat, later recalled that he and Mr. Asd stayed on the deck for a while, and they talked about some small things that would only be talked in a barber chair. When leaving, Vakerman asked Asd, "Do you mind if I shake your hand?" Asd said, "I am very happy." This is the last sentence that the passengers heard from the billionaire.
Smith, the captain of Titanic, has a good personal relationship with almost all the rich people on board, many of whom are his good friends, including Asd. But Asd didn't go to Captain Smith to bend the rules through the back door and let him get on board. If he goes to the captain, there is another good reason. His wife is pregnant for five months. But Asd didn't do it, or didn't think it should be done at all. It was an era without the concept of "back door", an era of being a gentleman and a real man.
A few days later, the body of John Jacob Asd was found in the Atlantic Ocean where the Titanic sank. He was covered in soot and smashed to pieces. It is speculated that he may have been hit by a fallen chimney on the ship. In his coat pocket, he cashed a check for 2500 dollars. This $2,500 is astronomical for the crew, and the monthly salary of a sailor on board is less than $20. But Asd didn't use the money to bribe any crew to escape from the ship. Even if he did, probably no sailor would accept it.
Another wealth on the Titanic, second only to Astor, is Strauss, the founder of Macy's Department Store in the United States. He and his wife are also on board. Today, 94 years after the shipwreck, "Macy's Department Store" is still the largest department store in the world, located on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, new york.
Mr. and Mrs. Strauss also brought more than a dozen waiters and waiters themselves in case there were not enough or inconvenient waiters on board. You can imagine their wealth and style. After the Titanic hit the iceberg, Mrs. Strauss almost boarded the No.8 lifeboat, but her foot was just about to step on the side. She suddenly changed her mind and came back to be with Mr. Strauss, saying, "We have lived together for so many years, and I will go wherever you go!" " She gave up her place on the boat to a young maid and threw her fur coat to the maid, saying, "I don't need it anymore!" " "
When someone asked 67-year-old Mr. Strauss, "I believe no one would object to an old man like you getting on the lifeboat ..." Strauss replied firmly, "I will never get on the lifeboat before others." Then, an old couple, holding the arm of their 63-year-old wife Ida, went to the rattan chair on the deck and sat down, perched there peacefully like a pair of mandarin ducks, quietly waiting for the last moment.
Benjamin Guggenheim, a world-famous pipeline tycoon, knew that he had no chance of being saved, put on the most gorgeous evening dress and said, "I want to die with dignity, like a gentleman." The note he left for his wife said, "There won't be any woman left on the deck of this ship because I took the position of the lifeboat. I will not die like a beast, but like a real person. "
Andrews is the third senior manager and shipbuilder on board. He has no intention of running away. At the last minute, he said regretfully to a waitress, "Son, I didn't build you an unsinkable boat." Although he is not a designer, sinking the ship is not his responsibility. But in the face of so many women, children and crew members sinking into the sea with the Titanic, as a man, a man with the responsibility to save, he can't live any longer. He wants to express his regret, his dignity and his humanitarian feelings, and he is responsible for it at such a huge cost of life.
Captain Smith of the Murdoch family and many officials, sailors, ordinary employees and waiters also embody the spirit of manhood ... For such a huge group, they can be so disciplined, stick to their posts and be full of self-sacrifice. Danny Alan Butler, the author of "Never Sink", analyzed that the main reason was that the ship's leaders did not "escape" in times of crisis and set an example. This exemplary role has attracted people to follow.
The film Titanic has been popular in the United States, Europe, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and mainland China for nearly ten years. One of the important reasons is that this film vividly reproduces the human civilization of that year: the world's first and largest ship sank, but human virtues, humanistic feelings and human kindness did not sink, and it radiated light in this century catastrophe! This is the spiritual civilization that mankind pursues together. In today's high-tech modern society, this civilized value is even more precious because it is scarcer. Therefore, audiences of different colors, races and countries sighed, remembered and yearned for that era, the dream of civilization, the great men and women, and the eternal glory of human nature under the screen of the movie Titanic.
God will wipe away all their tears and there will be no more death. There will be no sorrow or death, and there will be no more pain, because the past world has passed.
God wiped away all their tears, no more death, no more sadness, no more parting of life and death, no more pain, because the past has passed.