Real Artifacts: The Titanic Sank

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The Titanic Sank in 1912, Many people died. Some “artifacts” still remain. People think its OK to take stuff from the grave of the Titanic, well its not. Its like people coming into your house and taking stuff. Most random people don’t understand this. In this writing i'm going to tell you what i think about this.
I agree and disagree, first i'm going to tell you why i agree that artifacts should be taken up. There should be a plan with professionals and scientist to go to take artifacts up from the Titanic. Once they got the artifacts up, they build a special museum just for the Titanic’s artifacts. It should be a place about history of the Titanic with real artifacts. It's better to have them in a museum instead of getting sold.
Now i'm

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