10-21-2013, 06:39 PM
Patrick,
The carvings of the S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald bring back very sad memories of that long ago sinking. My dad worked as a coal stoker on the ore boats on the Great Lakes in the 1940's. I was in Cleveland when the news hit that she had gone down. Much of the ore taken out of the ground in Minnesota was bound for Cleveland and the steel mills there (and Youngstown, Ohio, too).
Thus what happened hit close to the bone for me.
The carvings of the S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald bring back very sad memories of that long ago sinking. My dad worked as a coal stoker on the ore boats on the Great Lakes in the 1940's. I was in Cleveland when the news hit that she had gone down. Much of the ore taken out of the ground in Minnesota was bound for Cleveland and the steel mills there (and Youngstown, Ohio, too).
Thus what happened hit close to the bone for me.
Quinton Johansen
Marcus Quintius Clavus, Optio Secundae Pili Prioris Legionis III Cyrenaicae
Marcus Quintius Clavus, Optio Secundae Pili Prioris Legionis III Cyrenaicae
