We Are Holding Our Own
We Are Holding Our Own The year was 1975. In April, Saigon would fall, marking the end of the Vietnam War. Bill Gates and Paul Allen would found Microsoft. Steven Spielberg would unleash Jaws upon the world, Saturday Night Live would premiere on NBC, and Muhammad Ali would defeat Joe Frazier in what would become known as the "Thrilla in Manila." Kodak would develop the world's first digital camera, and for reasons I still don't fully understand, America would become obsessed with the Pet Rock. It was a year full of events that would leave their mark on history. But on November 10, 1975, around 7:00 p.m., a tragedy was unfolding in the middle of a historic storm on Lake Superior. One that would claim 29 lives and become one of the most haunting maritime disasters in American history. The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a massive, 729-foot freighter. When launched in 1958, she was the largest ship on the Great Lakes, and she remains the largest ever lost in thos...