Chapter Three: What It's Like
Being back in Wisconsin is odd. Real odd. Lots of folks have come up to me, and to ask how I've been. They've heard I came on the Titanic. What's that like? What was that sinking like? Musta been right good fun watching somethin' that big just collapse into the water.
Yes, it was great fun. Watching men say their final good-byes to their wives and children, watching a magnificent liner go down into the sea, watching my beautiful Rose go down. Wonderful. So I tell 'um. I tell 'um all they wanna know 'bout that ship. I tell 'um what that sinkin's like. I tell 'um what it is to lose the love of your life to that ocean. I tell 'um what it's like to watch your best friend go down with the hundreds of others that perished that night. I sure am lucky, they say. Musta been somethin' dreadful. They don't know the half of it.