Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. She was born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants. At the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess that was to span 40 years. She survived the sinking of the TITANIC. One awful moment of empty, misty blackness enveloped us in its loneliness, then an unforgettable, agonizing cry went up from 1500 despairing throats, a long wail and then silence and our tiny craft tossing about at the mercy of the ice field. For most people one sinking would be enough. But Violet also survived the sinking of the hospital ship BRITANNIC and her, this disaster was even more horrifying. Just as life seeming nothing but a whirling, choking ache, I rose to the light of day, my nose barely above the little lapping waves. I opened my eyes on an indescribable scene of slaughter, which made me shut them again to keep it out. At...

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