John Harper

John quickly kissed the forehead of his daughter and handed her to the crewman, who then handed her to Jesse. When Nana saw that her daddy was not following, she began to cry and scream, “Daddy! Daddy! No! Don’t leave me!” Through the tears in her eyes, she saw her daddy turn and disappear into the crowd. As the lifeboat lurched down toward the cold waters of the North Atlantic, Nana could hear her father’s booming voice over chaotic crowd, “Women and children and the unsaved into the lifeboats! Women and children and the unsaved into the lifeboats!”