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I am not sure about 'Fun'. It was fascinating to read about this naval tragedy, and I tried to discover, with no luck, whether there were any plans to raise the vessel.

Mr Brinnen seems to have had problems all of his own. I very much liked 'as pages and years passed by', and I hope that this man's efforts to bring the event to public attention will be successful. I think I should have been strict with the meter, but otherwise, a tale well told, tho you may care to correct s.2 l.3 to 'cries'.

Thanks, I fixed cries.
As to raising the vessel, apparently it has been concluded as being not possible
Unfortunately the newyork times are bastards with a pay wall so access to the full article is not possible. Brinnen was an idiot, so many lives lost and the impact to their families should not have been downplayed like that. I grew up by the sea in a maritime fishing community. I have been on the ocean during rough seas, we fished, as were all the people in my community and the surrounding ones, so I am really appalled that we never learned of this in school. I cant be strict with meter because I never try to write with it and any meter present is purely accidental.

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a nice if sad little poem (cries as abu said, though this is said in fun and not as a critique)
i have to admit to never having heard of the disaster before.
it has a softness to it that's more implied than real which i like.

Thanks, I wrote it after reading the article with my morning coffee,
it really angered me that very little attention had been given to it before.
It was the first I had heard of it also.