# Semper Fi - Remembering the Fitz - November 10, 1975

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**Created:** [November 11, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semper-fi-remembering-the-fitz-november-10-1975/517127 "2009-11-11T01:24:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/semper-fi-remembering-the-fitz-november-10-1975/517127/1 "2009-11-11T01:24:47Z")

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> The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down  
> Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee  
> The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead  
> When the skies of November turn gloomy.

_The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_, by Gordon Lightfoot.

On [November 10, 1975](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald), at approximately 7:25 pm CST, the mighty Fitz was lost forever, taking 29 souls to their common grave.

Semper Fi - Always Faithful

You are remembered this night, at this very hour.