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Achtung Baby.

Memorial and gravesites for those Marshall University football team members, staff and others returning via Flight 932 to Huntington, WV from Greenville SC on November 14, 1970. 75 perished. Spring Hill Cemetery.

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geK.iF...RWU03YwJc-

The sign is located at the site of plane crash near Kenova WV.
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My departed brother in law played football for Marshall and would have been on that plane but he was injured. He felt remorse about not being with the team his whole life until he died. You'd think he would have been grateful, but he just felt guilty.

colorful dying leaves on a Toten Sunday in Swan Point Cemetery, up the road from me.

mtneers: I do not remember that tragedy. I was in college at that time and didn’t have access to a television etc. Glad you brought this up.

ferret, I guess it is difficult to understand what your late brother-in-law had to deal with his survivor’s guilt. I have a friend who was forced to take a medical retirement (lost his finger) from the New York (city) Fire Department right before the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. I called him to check on him because I knew his former firehouse was close to the WTC. I asked him if he lost any of his fellow firefighters and he said “all of them”. He had to get professional help to deal with his survivor’s guilt.

At first acquaintance, 'survivor's guilt' seems a strange reaction. But, on reflection, it's easy to see how being lucky enough to miss a catastrophe you really ought to have been at would leave you feeling guilty and somehow like you cheated.

Well all I know is it ruined his life. Couldnt keep a job, failed marriage, drank himself to death at 46.

(11-10-2019, 10:50 AM)baxtercat_imp Wrote: [ -> ]colorful dying leaves on a Toten Sunday in Swan Point Cemetery, up the road from me.

All those leaves even behind in the picture are still on the trees in RI? The Oaks by me are just about leafless.

(11-10-2019, 01:43 PM)clearviewx_imp Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-10-2019, 10:50 AM)baxtercat_imp Wrote: [ -> ]colorful dying leaves on a Toten Sunday in Swan Point Cemetery, up the road from me.

All those leaves even behind in the picture are still on the trees in RI? The Oaks by me are just about leafless.

Funny that. Way up here north of Lake Ontario the big ol' oak in my yard is still 80% full of orange leaves and we get snow tonight! Oaks around me tend to keep leaves too long ... into the cold season.

However, the maples are about 75% empty now.

The maple trees are empty here.

The oak trees with acorns are loosing their leaves on the windy days. The oak trees without acorns will hold their leaves all winter. The leaves will fall in the spring when the new growth starts.

The squirrels harvest the acorns by cutting the stem. They fall like a grape clusters and make a real mess. Everybody's lawn near the trees has holes all over the place from the squirrels burying the acorns. Smarter squirrels bury them close to house foundations because the snow melts there during mild spells like the January thaw.