I binged on a ton of horror novels this year but so far this is the first book I set aside because it was too emotionally draining. There were about 50 pages or so of first hand accounts describing the human element of the disaster while the ship was actually sinking. 
 Yes, I saw Titanic. No, I didn't cry. Whoever told you that I did is a dirty liar. 
 If you did see that movie, you have a clue what was going on during this ship's last 18 minutes or whatever it was. When people are jumping to their deaths by choice, it conjures up too many 9/11 images. This went back to the library for a couple weeks until my hold came up again so I could read the last 75 pages. 
 From what I had previously known of the incident, I had already pre-judged the Wilson administration for letting it happen, in order to get us into the war after campaigning that "I kept us out of the war!" After all, shipping arms to Britain in a war zone declared by Germany after a warning that all ships are targets.... it seems like an invitation to disaster. 
 In retrospect, my "blame Wilson" theory sounds as ludicrous as most of the 9/11 conspiracies I've read about. The main correlation between this incident and 9/11 is a tremendous lack of imagination. It never happened before, why would it happen now?