Titanic Memorial – Washington, DC
THE INSCRIPTION READS: “TO THE BRAVE MEN WHO PERISHED IN THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC, APRIL 15, 1912. THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT WOMEN AND CHILDREN MIGHT BE SAVED. — ERECTED BY THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.” GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY DESIGNED THE MEMORIAL IN 1931.
James Cameron must have remembered this to base Jack’s big moment (“I’m the King of the World!”) on it.