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10. When Gordon Lightfoot passed away

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:06 AM

Monday

I posted on FB that the bell that "rang 29 times, once for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald" would now ring 30 times to welcome one more lost soul home.

Sure enough, they now ring the bell 30 times.

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