1975, right? Out of college and knee deep in alligators in my first job. I don't remember the wreck happening, but like Joe I couldn't escape the song.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
On my way back from WestPac. Don't remember hearing about it until the song came out.
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That would have made me a Junior in High School. You don't hear much about the Great Lakes on the West Coast but Gordon Lightfoot certainly memorialized the event that song.
"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle." John Stapp - "Stapp's Law" "Klaatu barada nikto"
I just googled the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, it sank November 10, 1975, which was the Marine Corps 200 Anniversary. I took leave from the USS Mobile which was in Hawaii and caught a flight back to March Air Force base to try to make the Marine Corps birthday ball in San Diego but got in too late.
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wyo1895 With Savage never say never. For a copy of my book on engraved Savage lever actions rifles send a check for $80 to; David Royal, p.o. box 1271, Pinedale, Wy., 82941. I will sign and inscribe the book for you. [email protected]
I was in Dayton, Ohio working for Control Data Corp. at Wright Patterson AFB. I was a young engineer on my first job in the magic world of computer mainframes. Heady days...
I remember the incident very well and I am a big fan of Gordon'ts work. My handle 'Lightfoot' is however a throwback to the days of the CB radio. I was really a Leadfoot in those days and got a chuckle out of the contrast.
I was in 11th grade when it went down, I remember every one glued to the news casts for days hoping they would find survivors. I think a lot people in other parts of the country don't realize how big and and dangerous the Great lakes are. Had a relative visit from Virginia and she was surprised that she couldn't see across Lake Michigan when we took her to Grand Haven.
Starting junior high, and I have to admit I didn’t know a thing about it for years.
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setting chokers and chasing landing outside Eugene Or. my last year Logging
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
Out of the Navy and married 7 years. My son was five years old. Other things going on of a personal nature.....gosh, maybe, I'm starting to get a little long in the tooth.
26 yrs old, patrolling the streets of a midwestern city in Central Iowa as a Police Officer. It was a Monday evening, so if I wasn't on duty, probably sitting home watching ABC Monday Night Football. Kansas City Chiefs beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-31
