Great post!
To this day every November 10th they still play the song on just about every station here in Michigan. My parents to this day can still remember that tragic day. I try to get up to Whitefish Point every other year to tour the museum and see the bell. It seems everytime I go and you walk in and see the bell my hair raises on the back of my neck. I'm hoping I can go neck year and take my little 9 1/2 month old to see it.
By the way he is a big Gordon Lightfoot fan now too. He loves to jump up and down to his music. That would make three generations of Gordon fans in my family.