A SYMBOLIC DEATH - AT 7:24 A.M. ET:

LONDON — Millvina Dean, who as an infant passenger aboard the Titanic was lowered into a lifeboat in a canvas mail sack and lived to become the ship’s last survivor, died Sunday at a nursing home in Southampton, the English port from which the Titanic embarked on its fateful voyage, according to staff at the home.

She was 97 and had been in poor health for several weeks.

COMMENT:  Those who are turning America into a new Titantic are still alive and well, and living in Washington.

June 1, 2009