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Pirate Twin commented on my entry about ballads that today marks 30 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in terrible weather on Lake Superior.
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In reading this CNN.com story about the wreck and the Gordon Lightfoot song, I was amazed by this figure: 6,000 ships have disappeared in the Great Lakes.
6,000 ships.
It's hard to imagine 6,000 ships scattered at the bottom of the Great Lakes - and with them, the remains of many crew members, surely. A ghost fleet, silent and dark, moored at lake bottom.
6,000.
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"We are holding our own."
God. How sad.
Thanks, PT, for that account. And VO, I still get massive goosebumps whenever I hear the song. I always will, I reckon.
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