RW> The Lusitania was a British flagged ocean liner that
RW> was sunk by a German U-boat w/o warning.  Up to that
RW> time it was fairly common practice for a sub to surface
RW> and allow liners time to put any passengers on life
RW> boat and to send out a distress.  Then they would sink
RW> the ship with gun fire.  128 Americans were killed.
RW> The incident was used as an example of the barbarism of
RW> the Germans and was cited as one of the reasons why the
RW> US should break its neutrality.
Does anybody know why the Americans were in a war zone that America was not 
involved with in the first place?  Sorry, I'm still trying to learn and there 
are a few  pieces of the puzzle missing.
Peace.
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