10 November 2024

The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Forty-nine years ago today.


To commemorate the 29 lives lost in the sinking of the ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.

1 comment:

  1. 47 years ago Coast Guard UTB 41332 capsized on the Colombia River bar washing my friend overboard. They never recovered his body. Today it dawned on me how much help grieving this song must have given my friend's mom. The joke goes when Gordon Lightfoot arrived at the pearly gates St Peter said come right in, there are 29 fellows waiting to buy you a cup of coffee. Make that 30.

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