“Where were you God? Where were you when I needed you most? If you are powerful and loving then why didn’t you prevent this from happening?” It’s the question many of us have asked when the cold hand of misfortune suddenly knocks on our door. In his classic song Lightfoot asked the inevitable question pondered by many in times of tragedy, “Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?” Article content Edmund Fitzgerald.n/a SunMedia This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they call ‘Gitchi-Gumee’, Superior they said never gives up her dead, When the gales of November come early.” Said the balladeer, “In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed, In the Maritime Sailor’s Cathedral, The church bell chimed ‘til it rang 29 times, For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. That solitary act of remembrance became part of the song by Canadian folk icon Gordon Lightfoot, and made the story of ‘The Fitz’ a legend. Richard Ingalls, the rector of Mariner’s Church in Detroit, went to the church and rang the bell 29 times, once for every man who lost his life. 11, when news of the marine disaster reached him, the Rev. all contact with the freighter was now lost, and she plunged to the icy depths of ‘Gitchi-Gumee’ with every sailor on board. Now the Fitzgerald and her 29 man crew were in the fight of their lives, their future hanging on either the mercy or the wrath of the legendary ‘Witch.’ After a series of enormous waves buffeted her, the ire of Superior’s ‘Witch’ buried the Fitzgerald.
The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior 46 years ago.
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