Sad day in Michigan

Restored bell from the E. Fitzgerald

This is the restored bell from that infamous ship, the Edmund Fitzgerald. Today, at the Mariners Cathedral in Detroit, the family of the 29 lost souls gather to ring this bell 29 times, on this the 29th anniversary of the wreck. Michigan's great lakes are full of wrecks, but this one hits home because it happened in our lifetime. The lakes are the graveyard of these and thousands of other mariners, lost mostly in the 19th century. Our lakes are so cluttered with wreckage and bones that they deserve the protection of our government as sacred "soil". Any state, or any governor, that would sifen water from these graves without the consent of Michiganians, should be cursed in the next life to wander among the underwater graves of this vast collection of bones, steam engines, wooden hulls, booms, chains, metal, and propellors. The souls of our lost 29, from that fateful day on Nov. 10, 1975, shall haunt any politician who dares touch our water, our great lakes, the very canvas of our nautical dead, the coffin of their corpses. Rest in Peace, ye Great Lakes Sailors.