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Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, WV.

Gravesite/memorial to the 37 members of the Marshall University football team, coaching staff, team doctors, athletic director and 25 boosters that perished in the November 1970 plane crash returning from a game against East Carolina University.
75 total fatalities. 6 unidentified.

From the “History Channel”…..

“For Huntington, the plane crash was “like the Kennedy assassination,” one citizen remembers. “Everybody knows where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news.” The town immediately went into mourning. Shops and government offices closed; businesses on the town’s main street draped their windows in black bunting. The university held a memorial service in the stadium the next day and cancelled Monday’s classes. There were so many funerals that they had to be spread out over several weeks. In perhaps the saddest ceremony of all, six players whose remains couldn’t be identified were buried together in Spring Hill Cemetery, on a hill overlooking their university.”

Each year, on the anniversary date, this fountain on the Marshall University Campus is turned off. Each nail represents one of the 75 deceased.

If you ever get a chance, stream the movie “We Are Marshall”.

Seems almost sacrilegious to post……







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