November 14, 1970 Never forget the 75!!!! Marshall plane crash......
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And let us slso remember the Witchita State Football Team crash 6 weeks earlier
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I was on a shuttle bus to a Steeler game with my Dad the day after the crash. The lady in front of us heard us talking about the crash and she leaned back and said she had a nephew on the team and if we knew anything. Felt awful for her and hoped her nephew was one of the few survivors.
well we will be at Tailgate spot 357 starting Saturday a 1030 am!! so come on!! Would love to meet with you!
Art was a neighbor who lived up the street from us. The family was about as nice as a family could be. RIP Art.
So sad, both of those crashes. 
Not that I remember them directly, as they bookended my birth.
But to think how devastating both events must have been to their respective university communities… I can’t even begin to fathom it.
I have never seen We Are Marshall. Maybe I will watch it tonight
Not that I remember them directly, as they bookended my birth.
But to think how devastating both events must have been to their respective university communities… I can’t even begin to fathom it.
I have never seen We Are Marshall. Maybe I will watch it tonight
Bring some tissues!!So sad, both of those crashes.
Not that I remember them directly, as they bookended my birth.
But to think how devastating both events must have been to their respective university communities… I can’t even begin to fathom it.
I have never seen We Are Marshall. Maybe I will watch it tonight
I’ve been lucky enough to know the real Reggie Oliver ( sadly he’s passed)
As well as the real Red Dawson ( who isn’t well right now)
Both had good stories. According to Reggie the beer Joe Hood told him to get was Falls City not what’s in the movie ( or vice versa)
Red had some interesting comments about January Jones who plays his wife Carol in the movie. His comments were directed about his wife and not January though
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I didn’t get to watch it on the 14th itself but I watched it last night. Wow. Hell of a thing they went through and what a story it was. I felt so inspired at the end. And thank you for the bit of insider info!
The Mu memory cemetery is over the hill from my house. I was out walking and found this guy. He played and graduated the yr before the plane crash. It was his first time back. It was an emotional experience for everyone including me He lost most of all his teammates
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On Nov 14 each yr they have a wreath ceremony where they turn the fountain off for the winter. They have a speaker who has some relationship to the crash. Next year it is one of the Hagleys. His dad was a doctor in Huntington and both he and his wife were killed. They had like 5 young kids So what happens now? Who raises the kids? They were scattered to various relatives around the country. Some as far away as Florida so they didn’t get to be w their siblings. That was hard on them.
The fountain is semi famous. In the spring they will have a ceremony to turn the water back on
My first wife was so proud as her picture of her sitting in the fountain was in the MU yearbook
fast forward to my second wife, who my first were contemporary’s they weren’t really friendly. My second, current wife was a good photographer. I was going through some of her old pics and I find the picture of my first wife in the fountain. It was a wtf moment and asked why she had it ( this was 15 yrs later) she laughed. Oh yeah I took that!!
during a Tv time out they usually have something relative to the crash but the fountain ceremony is the major’event’
from this years fountain ceremony, the speaker is Brad Smith, MU president and former ceo of Intuit (he went to Marshall and is a local boy) the speech is from the movie, We are Marshall.... the guy in the chair is Red Dawson...
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