Remember the Lusitania!

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 8, 1999 | Copyright information

* Excerpts from "the first rough draft of history" as reported in The Washington Post on this date in the 20th century. The sinking of the British passenger ship Lusitania by German torpedoes off the coast of Ireland was decried as an act of barbarism during World War I. A total of 1,198 people died in the attack, including 128 Americans. When the U.S. entered the war two years later, "Remember the Lusitania!" became a popular rallying cry. An excerpt from The Post of May 8, 1915:

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