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Article: JIM STINGL IN MY OPINION Bride can thank Titanic survivor for wedding day
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2009
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If David Vartanian hadn't been such a strong swimmer and clung so
tightly to the side of a Titanic lifeboat, we wouldn't be having
this conversation.
He survived the sinking and went on to have children,
grandchildren and a great-granddaughter in Milwaukee named Melissa
Vartanian.
She's bringing the family story around full-circle on Friday when
she marries Vache Mikaelian in the popular Titanic exhibit at the
Milwaukee Public Museum.
I had to ask her. You're beginning this marriage among the
artifacts of an ill-fated ship that's become shorthand for disaster.
Couldn't this be, um . . . I fumbled for a sensitive word.
"A bad omen?" she chimed in.
Yes. I mean, the thing sank and more than ...