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Related: About this forum#TheMoment Mariner's Church rings their bell 30 times for Gordon Lightfoot
The Mariner's Church of Detroit rang their bell 30 times in memory of Gordon Lightfoot once for every man lost in the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and once for Lightfoot. Family members of the men lost in that wreck shared their memories with us.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2201462339736
Very moving comments by the family members and by the host on CBC, imo.
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#TheMoment Mariner's Church rings their bell 30 times for Gordon Lightfoot (Original Post)
Spazito
May 2023
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A fitting, fine tribute to ring 30 times. Thirtieth crew member now. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2023
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Bernardo de La Paz
(50,934 posts)1. A fitting, fine tribute to ring 30 times. Thirtieth crew member now. . . . nt
applegrove
(123,188 posts)2. He kept in touch with some of the families who lost a mariner on the
Edmund Fitzgerald.
Spazito
(54,405 posts)4. Yes, he visited them for over 4 decades....
just talking to them, sharing their memories. Amazing, caring man.
Ilsa
(62,245 posts)3. What a kind thing to do. Yes, as the song goes:
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.
Yes, it is lovely that they chime one time more for Gordon Lightfoot.
I remember the sinking when it happened, and a documentary about it many years later. The song keeps the tragedy alive.