“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee. Superior they say, never gives up her dead, when the gales of November come early."

On this day 44 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior. The 29 crew members sank with the freighter hauling iron ore.

USS Midway (now a floating museum), San Diego, CA:

A Union Soldier who gave his life in the Civil War.

Washington Square, Philadelphia. The eternal flame was dedicated in 1976 "in memory of all who fought and gave their lives so that we may celebrate our 200th anniversary as a free people."

My Dad, circa 1918 (WW1)

Camp Pike, Arkansas