It was 36 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a massive winter storm on Lake Superior.  The entire crew was lost. As a kid growing up in St. Louis, I had a childhood friend who's Dad was on that ship. His name was Jimmy Pratt, his father was James Pratt.  So I remember that ship and that day and my friend Jimmy, with the song from Gordon Lightfoot...

 

 

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