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“What Time Cannot Erase”

08 February 2006


When the sun shines and the Titanic was raised
Then your world could be bright
and a summer time over winter grazed

Each day another to spring - to know she
was there waiting - Another mountain to climb
those heights of ecstasy to reach

This love for her in ways understood - her beauty
all in soul to behold - Another day - another year
to begin - to the time in reaching the wreck

Wanting more than sun shine
needing her in waves of good
Just to know she was everything
as if that added up to ways
of how life to be should


The world was stunned in 1912 by the loss of the liner Titanic on her maiden voyage. Halifax,
Nova Scotia, located on the eastern coast of Canada, in a connection with the Titanic
disaster, playing a key role during the tragedy's aftermath and becoming the final resting
place of many of her unclaimed victims.

Halifax was where the maiden voyage of Titanic really ended, with the most lasting legacy from the sinking located there. The story of the Titanic and the iceberg has grown into a legend of the sea. It took her discovery in 1985 by Dr. Robert Ballard, an oceanographer and marine biologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. to begin to find the truth behind the myth.

On 10 April 1912, the Royal Mail Ship Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage to New York City in the USA. At that time, she was the largest and most luxurious ship ever built. At 11:40 PM on 14 April 1912, she struck an iceberg about 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada

Three Halifax ships were involved in the grim task of recovering victims - many of whom were laid to rest in three of our city's cemeteries. Rows of black granite headstones, each inscribed with the same date, 15 April 1912, are a stark reminder of the disaster.



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1 posted 2006-03-07 09:55 AM


We say time heals all wounds....but it's a lie. Time heals the easy wounds and scars over the ones that are a bit worse.....but some, it doesn't touch.

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