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The Last Witness
Lillian Asplund spent her whole, long life trying to forget the very thing she was the last person on Earth to remember
By David BrownSunday, July 30, 2006; W16
Lillian Gertrud Asplund was 5 1/2 years old when her family booked third-class passage and went aboard a ship called the RMS Titanic in Southampton, England, returning to America. The trip ended a four-year sojourn in Sweden, where her father helped straighten out problems on his widowed mother's farm -- a task he agreed to on the condition that he could bring his family with him. Now, they were all headed home to Worcester, the city in central Massachusetts that by the turn of the century had more Swedes than any place east of Chicago.
Four days out, the ship hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank, with 712 passengers and crew saved, and about 1,500 lost. Among the latter were Lillian's father, Carl Oscar; her 13-year-old brother, Filip; her 9-year-old brother, Clarence; and her twin brother, Carl Edgar. Of the family, only Lillian, her mother, Selma, and her 3-year-old brother, Felix, survived.
I met Lillian Asplund ...rest of article
[ 08-02-2006: Message edited by: joe at travelpage ]
I an happy the reporter did not press the lady unduly regarding her recollections, and I can understand her reluctance to discuss them. I have in the course of my life met a number of veterans of both world wars and the people who were in the worst situations usually had the least to say.
I do not agree whole heartedly with his more sociological opinions but at least he was restrained, with the lady.
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