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Old 12-26-2006, 12:05 AM
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Just saw it tonight. It was very good, but I cried through half of the movie!!
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Old 12-26-2006, 12:33 AM
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Just saw it tonight. It was very good, but I cried through half of the movie!!
Then all the work of the people involved in the movie worked.
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Old 12-26-2006, 06:52 PM
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While the Marshall crash is the worst of which I'm aware, it might be good to reflect on other sports/air related tragedies.

Included would be the Cal-Poly crash in the 1960's in which several members of the football team were killed leaving Bowling Green, the Wichita State crash only weeks before the Marshall accident, the crash of the aircraft with the U.S. Olympic Skating team and the crash here in Denver a few years ago which killed members of the Oklahoma State University basketball team.

There may be more, but those immediately come to mind.

Maybe while seeing this movie, we might reflect on those others and keep them in our thoughts.

While there is no relationship at all, I also can't forget that just months before the Marshall crash, the four students were killed at Kent State.

Wichita, Marshall, Kent State -- 1970 was a tragic year for college students.
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Old 01-02-2007, 05:33 PM
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From the NIC website Greeks in the News section.

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"We Are Marshall" Features Greek Involvement
December 22, 2006

The new film "We Are Marshall", which focuses on the 1970 tragic football team plane crash, has a heavy Greek involvement. The two main stars are Matthew McConaughey (Delta Tau Delta) as new 1971 head coach Jack Lengyel and Matthew Fox (Phi Gamma Delta), who plays assistant coach William "Red" Dawson (Lambda Chi Alpha). Playing McConaughey's wife is Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Alpha Phi). Former Georgia record-setting kicker Billy Bennett (Kappa Alpha Order) plays Marshall kicker Blake Smith (Sigma Phi Epsilon). An actor portrays Bobby Bowden (Pi Kappa Alpha), who was head coach at West Virginia and helped the Marshall coaching staff following the crash. Early game footage features quarterback Ted Shoebridge, who was one of five Pi Kappa Alpha players who died in the crash.
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Old 01-02-2007, 05:38 PM
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Impressive greek cast. I'll have to see this movive.
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Old 01-03-2007, 08:50 AM
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Huntington is my hometown, and I have yet to see the movie. I'll probably end up seeing it on DVD.
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