he was rescued by the mounsey, and taken to belfast, and on to the war.lay. he always told war stories to my grandfather. but it wasn't until i was an adult that i really started to take notice about what he was saying about world war i. he had tojump from a sinking ship. did he ever talk about that? i remember him saying that... ..hejust had to do what he had to do. so, you know... but it was hard. he said it was very hard, it impacted him because he still talked about it for years and years, if anybody would ask him about it. and his memory was still really very clear on it. even as he aged, and aged, and aged. donald cooper's life touched three centuries. he outlived everyone on the 0tranto, reaching the age of 104. when private donald cooper was laid to rest in this georgia cemetery, the sinking of the 0tranto passed from living memory into history. the same is true for the tuscania. but in this centenary year, there are people here in the united states and in scotland determined to make sure that these twin disasters, and all those touched by them, a