Captain_Jack just likes to see more articles to read is all... what is wrong with that? I too sometimes like to see where people find thier information sense we are all intrested in same subject so why not trade web links?
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Masabumi Hosono
The Titanic was sinking fast. Horrified passengers rushed onto lifeboats being lowered into the dark, icy sea. Desperate men were stopped at gunpoint so women and children could escape first.
Masabumi Hosono stood on the deck, torn between the fear of shame and the instinct for survival. Then the 42-year-old Japanese bureaucrat found himself in the right place at the right moment. There were two spots open in a lifeboat. Hosono hesitated, but when he saw a man next to him jump in, he swallowed his fear and followed.
Hosono's decision saved his life -- yet it brought him decades of shame in Japan. He was branded a coward, fired from his job and spent the rest of his days embittered.
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My source: http://www.keyflux.com/titanic/passdata.htm

It seems it the firearm was to keep people under control more so than actually shooting someone or self, but who knows. It still could have happened, this is what he mostly recalls.

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