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An Immigrant Story.(Editorial)
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June 1, 2008
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An Immigrant Story
By Patrick L. O'Toole
Long before Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet fogged up the window of a car in storage on the Titanic in the movie of the same name -- thus popularizing the long-ago saga for today's generation -- my grandfather, at every opportunity, would tell us how near he was to actually boarding the doomed vessel in April 1912.
The story is that, at age 16, he was left in Ireland to finish school while the rest of the family immigrated to the United States. He was to finish in June of that year, but the end came more quickly when he was kicked out of Gaelic class in early April. So he bought a ticket on the Titanic, the next ship ...