Refuting Entropy

Well, today is the 30th anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. I don't know when I was a kid that I realized it was a real incident...all I knew was that it was this really cool, haunting song. Even now, there are times when I can't listen to it at all. But I will today.

This is a link to a page with photos of the ship, the names of her crew, and the song lyrics.

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 call "Gitche Gumee."
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early!"

So this post is in memory of all 29 crew members and their families, as well as all the brave men & women who have died working to earn a living. What is remembered, lives.