Monday will mark 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy.

Her entire crew of 29 died in a disaster so bad and so quick that no mayday call could be sent. The Fitzgerald story is the latest deadly tragedy on the Great Lakes, but unfortunately probably not the last.

As a board member of the International Ship Masters’ Association — Toledo Lodge 9, and a communications consultant for the ISMA Grand Lodge, I asked Toledo City Councilman George Sarantou and State Rep. Josh Williams to sponsor city and state resolutions, respectively, honoring the 50th anniversary. Both men did. Thank you.

The Fitzgerald story is very much a Toledo story and a state of Ohio story.

Toledo was the ship’s home port during winter months. But it is much more than that. Five of the 29 men killed were from Tol

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