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After Disaster, a Survivor Sheds Her Regrets
January 11, 2008
On the afternoon of July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 crash-landed just outside of Sioux City, Iowa. Of the 296 people on board, 111 died. Of the survivors, only 13 walked away unscathed. Martha Conant was one of them.
"There was a jerk," she remembers. "The airplane really lurched, and the pilot said, 'We've lost an engine. No problem. DC-10s can fly perfectly well on two engines. Sorry for the disturbance. I hope you enjoy the rest of your lunch.'
"The flight attendants were picking up the dishes and one member of the flight crew came back to look out the window at the wings. But he was calm, he was talking to people. So there was confidence that this was just a hitch, that we were going to be fine.
"It was 40 minutes from the time that the plane lurched until we ... I'm going to say landed rather than crashed ... because we were intending to land. And I remember the pilot told us over the P.A. that 'It's going to be the roughest landing you've ever experienced.' And he yelled, 'Brace, brace, brace.'
"The next thing was a huge influx of air and debris. My body was being bounced around so much, I was out of control. I lost consciousness and when I came to, I remember saying to myself, 'Oh, I'm still alive.' Then the motion stopped and the plane was still."
Asked if she ever thought there was a reason why she survived unharmed, Conant says, "I have asked myself that question so many times. When survivors were being fed and cared for, I ended up talking to a young man who was a social worker. And he said, 'God must have had a reason for saving you. You haven't finished your life's work yet.'
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Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
As to the methods to be employed, he explains:
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.
