It is a horrible condition, I have it. I used to live in Dayton Ohio with my boyfriend at the time, and these teens were causing issues and tried to car jack my boyfriend, then a week later they broke my windshield. We called the cops both times, they didn’t take us serious, we said they are dangerous and that they are gonna hurt someone. They just brushed it off, that night I told my boyfriend I didn’t wanna be there anymore cause I’m scared for our safety. We moved out, 2 weeks later the same teens went out and shot and killed a Lyft driver.. I still hold that guilt.. I feel guilty cause I wish there was something I could have done.. that man had children and a wife.. I know my situation is not anywhere near as horrible as this man’s. But I do feel the guilt, I’ve had to go to therapy cause of it.. My boyfriend isn’t bothered, but it haunts me.. I am in no way trying to downplay this man’s grief, I’m just trying to give my story. May everyone who died that day rest in piece.
I was only 6 yrs old when this happened but I will never forget my dad pulling the car over when he heard over the radio. We were from Athens, GA it broke so many people's hearts. Bless this man. Decades later still bust out crying hearing him discuss.
My great uncle, Pete Naputano, played for Marshall during this time. He was out on injury when the crash happened. I think he has survivors remorse to this day.
As a Marshall student, I've seen the Fountain a thousand times, and I'm reminded of how short life can be. That plane crashed on and near my ex-father-in-law's property. He was the first there. He can not even think of that without tears. So many young people. So many lives. There is a lookout over the former wreckage site, and we have a special display at the Foundation Hall. They will never be forgotten. We. Are. Marshall.
My daughter teaches there now. I am setting a mile from the site. I was young at the time but my mom drove up there as a nurse hoping some were alive. I remember her coming back crying. I still visit the site on occasion. They are gone but not forgotten. Marshall has done a great job to never let them be forgotten. WE ARE......MARSHALL
Thanks so much for sharing this! I am a Son of Marshall and not one day goes by that I don't think about the 75. They will never be forgotten as long as I am alive! Go Herd...WE ARE...MARSHALL!!!
This reminds me of my first day going back to work in NYC after 9/11. The headline in the newspaper that day as I was boarding the Ferry to midtown was “10,000 Feared Dead.” I was completely speechless and couldn’t even look at anyone for fear of falling apart… Regardless of the number, I imagine the overwhelming feeling was similar, especially for those who knew the victims of this tragic crash personally… Obviously, everyone grieves in their own way and in their own time, but I do believe it is important to try to talk about your grief at some point, rather than burying it for years or decades. I hope that finally talking about it helped this man in some way…. 🙏🏼😇💙
Thank you sir and may you be better and hopefully you someday may heal.? Coach Gene Parker was a neighbor 2 doors down. I was 12 years old and can remember my daddy crying when the announcement was made over the TV. The neighbors went to check on Mrs. Parker to find out he was with Red on scout trip. I feel everyday for you and those who didn't make trip and what you must deal with, Sorry. You will always be a living memory of why we remember and celebrate the 75. Thank You We Are MARSHALL
When the gentleman was talking about how a bunch of kids ( who were strangers to each other ) came together and bonded as family. Eating together, training together, showering together, etc. and then they were all dead ( 19- 20 yr olds ). The only ones who can relate to his pain are those who served in combat and were the sole survivor when all their buddies were killed ( 19- 20 yr olds ). They always ask "Why me? Why did I survive?". I'm 71 and my personal feeling is that we are put on this earth with a definite time for our death. It is not important when we are born or how we die. It is what we do with the time in between that matters. Live life every day as if it is your last day to be alive, because eventually it will be.
My mother taught at Marshall 1969-71 so we were in Huntington at the time of the Marshall plane crash. Main memory I have was how deserted & eerily quiet the town was the next day. We lived in a house on 5th Ave. across from the campus. 5th Ave was 4-5 lanes all in same direction while other direction (towards downtown) was 4-5 lane Avenue on other side of campus (3rd Ave.?). Sunday not a single car would pass by on 5th Ave. for like 30 minutes or more at a time. Town was totally in shock & disbelief, guess everyone staying inside for news updates and grieving in their own way.
Marcel Latjerman, the kicker was my friend & tennis teammate from Lyndhurst High School in New Jersey. He had a scholarship to Marshall. He could kick a 40 yard field goal ,no socks in his penny loafers. He was from Argentina and kicked soccer style. Great guy! RIP good buddy. His brother Moses was also a kicker and played professional football.
I recall he had a brother named Moe who is the wrestler for Lyndhurst high school he was a tough wrestler my brother wrestled for Kennedy high school I remember those matches I believe Mo wind up kicking for Monclair State College. Marcel rest in peace
@@mohammedguketlov5619 Yes, Moe was also a soccer style kicker. He was also on the tennis team. His doubles partner was Dave Allan. Moe also kicked for a team in World Football League. He was also on the NY Jets squad. Both of them are great guys.
10:47 Decades later, man still deals with grief from Marshall plane crash 64,623 views Matthew Berry 74 subscribers Published on Jun 15, 2017 An injury forced Dennis Foley off the 1970 Marshall University football team. He missed the Nov. 1970 plane crash that killed 75 of his friends, teammates, coaches and members of the Huntington, W.Va., community. Nearly fifty years later, Foley granted us his first interview about that fateful night and the days, weeks and months that followed. Category People & Blogs Music in this video Learn more Listen ad-free with RUclips Premium Song Just a Memory - UPPM - Killer Tracks-14494 Artist Sam Hamilton Album Momentum Licensed to RUclips by AdRev for a 3rd Party (on behalf of Volta Music (UPPM)); BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., AdRev Publishing Up next Autoplay 47:12 Remembering Marshall: 30 years later Max Carey 15K views 48:58 Healing scriptures Full Length updated version "Read by John Hagee" Luke C. Recommended for you 49:44 muslim man converts to Christianity Ramin Parsa Recommended for you 38:24 JFK Assassination: The Truth Told by Secret Service Agent Clint Hill Valuetainment Recommended for you 44:58 Ravi at Princeton University - Why I'm Not an Atheist Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Recommended for you 25:51 Billy Graham - The Devil and Demons - Dallas TX 1971 Our Only Hope Recommended for you 1:13:51 I Saw Heaven! Roberts Liardon Recommended for you 14:37 John Hagee’s “The Three Heavens” 100huntley Recommended for you 27:26 Don't Talk to Cops, Part 1 MP Anon Recommended for you 28:31 The Trump Presidency- Prophetic Projections and Patterns | Episode 879 Perry Stone Recommended for you 28:31 Ravi Zacharias Answers Questions from Students in the Middle East John Ankerberg Show Recommended for you 3:54 Nate Ruffin Todd Erwin 113K views Comments • 44 Add a public comment... Dean Joseph I saw the movie once!...just once!...as much as I loved it...I promised never to watch it again because of how deeply it impacted me emotionally. But here I am again...on Google...on RUclips watching videos: over four hours of videos, documentaries, interviews, tributes et cetera. And while I'm doing it, I'm mourning, and asking WHY? WHY? WHY? did this tragedy happen. I wish I could time travel and prevent it...and even Wichita States Team plane crash. I'm not an American, I wasn't even born yet...but somehow the loss feels so close to home. While watching Doug Foley's interview, I also felt his loss,(not to the same extent), and I could not help my tears.
I was a freshman at Ferrum Junior College. Many of the players and several of the coaches had transferred to Marshall and died that night. There is a memorial at Ferrum to Marshall Football Team. I will never forget!
We talked at CCF 2 years ago. We wanted to meet last year at the fountain being turned off. I thank you for our conversation. I live in Huntington and I will try and meet you next year. Sorry I had a rough 2 years. I am praying for you. God bless. Dennis Foley
God bless you and your strength for talking about this sir, as I'm sure it was not, and never will be, an easy conversation. I can only imagine the amount of loss and grief you have gone through - always remembering the 75. You are so brave. I am a PROUD daughter of Marshall University. Marshall is who I am. WE ARE
I was down there as spectator at Fairfield Stadium in my teens from 1969-71 and beyond. I went to the road game opener at Morehead St in 1971. I can't watch the "We Are Marshall" movie any longer, and after about 3 viewings, it became too emotionally draining to do so any further. God bless you Mr. Foley.
I was a graduating senior when the plane went down.. It hits me hard every year. My ex-wife was a classmate of several of the football players. It hit us hard then. In honor of the team, I came back in May or June to "walk" in the 1971 Class graduation. It is a bookmark of my undergraduate years. The first book mark is I started to Marshall about three weeks after leaving Vietnam (Navy); January 1967,
Zack Owens, (blush) thank you. I appreciate it. In addition, I restarted the Veterans Club at Marshall which had been dormant, we think, since the post Korean War era.
Thank you! I was a kid in Virginia when I saw this on the news. I did not know anyone but being only 10 years old made me very sad. Later as I was older, seeing the movie really rekindled those early feelings. What you just told the world, in this short video has touched me and everyone else in a way the movie couldn’t. When the Marshall Football team came to Norfolk Va a few years ago to play ODU in their first football game together, it was special. When I heard the Marshall fans chanting, “We are Marshall”, I just had to sit and all I could think was the lives lost. Hearing those chants made me feel better. Thank you again for sharing your story and honoring your teammates and friends. God had a reason for you not being on that plane and that was to heal everyone with your story. Thank You!!
God Bless this man as he continues to struggle with the loss. As someone who shared the experience of playing college football, I cannot imagine how I would go on if the vast majority of my team mates were all killed the same night. I understand why he didn't want to talk
I was only 11 when this took place and didn't know about it until the movie came out. That is so incredibly sad to lose so many young men who had only started into their adult lives. My empathy goes to the survivors as well as the families who lost friends, neighbors, kids, teammates, and all. Such a tragedy. I always smile when I hear the name Marshall during the college football seasons.
i agree they all left home and came together at such a young age. it will never be the same for this man. God Bless him.i remember everyone from College like it was yesterday, but to endure this kind of pain. Every inch of his body and mind lives in pain. i am so sorry
watching this again. The Town and the people are exceptional and show us all the power of the human spirit. love and blessings to them all from Canada.
this wonderful man not only grieves for his mates, but takes us all back to a time when we made our first friendships..college. i watch the movie every year and send this man and the families prayers.
Thank you for sharing your story. I know that must of been hard. It's almost like a holocaust survivor, many died, made no sense. It helps to talk about it and always try to keep their memory alive. Again thank you
So very sad. It's no wonder he could never talk about for so long. From anyone that was a part of the school during that time. It was so much loss at one time. Just too much to comprehend. Bless him for bringing up those memories !
Thank you for sharing. I never thought about the fact that Debbie might have been there. She was a sorority sister that was probably there to pick up her parents. I hope many who were not attending at or near that time will hear this.
Helicopter crash in 1992 into the Gulf of Mexico. 4 of us were in the helo when it went down. only two of us were pulled out 2 days later. Why did I survive? We both held onto the bodies of our friends until the USCG picked us up. Having to talk to so many people investigators, lawyers, company lawyers, NTSB, family member's lawyers. My own family looked at me a little strange and differently. I'm just rambling on and thinking about everything that happened when I came across this video. I dont know what I'm saying I guess just an old man living in the past waiting for the guilt to get better and fade away but I guess it never will.
The air traffic controller would have seen the explosion as the crash was 1.4 miles from the airport. I really feel bad for him and I bet he probably had PTSD as a result.
I wasn't around yet to hear this story but when the movie came out it brought me to tears knowing it was a true story and how they portrayed it but this is the first I've seen of someone talk who was there and I have to say that my heart breaks even more now and o don't think that I can watch the movie anymore because now hearing and seeing the true survivors guilt in this man is emotionally pariylizing, I got to briefly witness the world in better times (early 80's) and I remember back then how a small town came together and loved thy neighbor so to imagine a tragdedy like this happening back then and the toll it took on a small town completely breaks my heart
My maternal aunt was a journalist for Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.. During 1971's Marshall University's graduation and commencement week, she submitted a three-part article which was published over the three days immediately preceding that weekend's commencement ceremonies. While her work was not nominated for a Pulitzer that year, several families wrote letters to the editor, and PNI's "Board of Editorials, and Editorial Opinion", thanking both publications for making an effort to (both) put faces on the story, and informing the 'combined readership' of the intense effort put forth by nearly everyone associated with the school with regards to alumni efforts to help Marshall University as a whole to heal, and perpetuate the memories of those lost "that gloomy, overcast Saturday".
This happened the year I was born. I was way far away in Southern California, but one of the first books my dad read me, atleast that i can remember, was a book on that Marshall team and that tragedy. The movie they made brought this story into the limelight, but it was curiously somewhat forgotten as i goit older You didnt hear much about it (maybe that was because we had such a lack of content at the time with television just having a handful or more of stations...definitely one of the darker moments, and one of the most triumphant in college football history. I thought they did an outstanding job with the movie. One of my all time favorites
Took great courage for him and his wife to talk. It's hard for the living after something like this happens but I do believe all of the victims have been happy in heaven since 1970. The living survivors will meet them someday when God calls them and the pain of their loss will be no longer as everyone will be joyous together again.
Working in Football, getting a chance to stop by there on a visit. Its surreal. The history and what this program has been through, that city...almost feel like time stood still there
And those that survive will always deal with it. But the important thing is to not let it consume you, which isn’t easy. And to live your life in a manner that honors that passed.
Does anyone know Ed Carter ? He missed that flight as well. We were in Bible College together. He is a preacher who has a great testimony. concerning this tragedy.
*Ed Carter* "Well, you see...there I was. I was stealing money from religious retards when I was supposed to be on a plane. I was shouting THOU SHALT GO TO HELL IF THY DON'T HELP PAY FOR MY MERCEDES AND COCAINE STASH!!! and then I learned the news a day later while tripping balls. I was a lucky bastard. Instead of watching those uneducated spoiled rich kids lose, I abused heavy drugs and robbed people of their spending cash in God's name. Does this make me a bad person? It probably does, but thou who shalt not give to the church of God shalt burn in the fire. So donate now children, and I promise you, I will use SOME of that money to help the church." Yeah I heard his testimony. I think it kind of sucked ass.
A kid from my town John Johnstonbaugh was a player on the team, we haven’t heard from him in our town after that. I think he was a Freshman at the time.
For 20 years I lived in Greenville NC and I knew people who played in that game. They don’t like talking about it either. ECU did not play the next weekend because the team was in no condition to play the game.
This tragic event and the young American Soldiers who actually served and were wounded or died n all our wars just tears me apart. AKA "Saving Private Ryan".
Retro Games Made Easy I can’t remember what movie it was but I don’t think it was a comedy. In the movie they stopped the movie to let everyone know what happened. Not so sure what happened in real life
Back then men were not supposed to cry. They were supposed to be stern, brave, stoic. One important thing that came of women’s reach for equality was it became socially acceptable for men to acknowledge their feelings, especially grief. It was quick for those on the plane. How tragic and sad for the others who were left behind. So many souls lost.
Of course he does. Some broken hearts never mend. I know it is a different deal, but when Paul Newman was in the navy in WW 2, he was assigned to a ship. He was put on sick call, and was sent back to a land based hospital. The ship got bombed and destroyed, almost everyone perished. Those closest to him said he rarely spoke of it, but it haunted him til the day it dies.
Hopefully you can come to grips with one of life's MILLION tragedies....although you probably will never understand it until....A world called ETERNITY that we all will enter...how else can you understand the un- understandable??
Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on the same flight with Buddy Holly, but gave up his seat to the Big Bopper. Waylon couldn't even talk about the crash, for 20 years.
As a joke, apparently when Buddy Holly found out he had switched seats with the Big Bopper he said, “I hope your ol bus freezes up”, to which Waylon replied, “Well I hope your ol plane crashes!”….. I know he obviously didn’t mean it but to have that be your last words… im not shocked at all he couldn’t talk about it 🥺 Survivors guilt x1000 ☹️
My dad’s first cousin was on the team. #31 Willie Bluford Jr. RIP cousin.
He was not a liar you're just making that up
@@claychandler3468 I’m not making anything up
Awwww
@@americanoutdoorsman_1133 I'm sorry to hear that. He must've been an amazing human being
@@claychandler3468 You are a complete and utter ASSHOLE.
Survivor’s remorse is a terrible condition. God bless this man, and RIP those killed. We are Marshall.
It is a horrible condition, I have it. I used to live in Dayton Ohio with my boyfriend at the time, and these teens were causing issues and tried to car jack my boyfriend, then a week later they broke my windshield. We called the cops both times, they didn’t take us serious, we said they are dangerous and that they are gonna hurt someone. They just brushed it off, that night I told my boyfriend I didn’t wanna be there anymore cause I’m scared for our safety. We moved out, 2 weeks later the same teens went out and shot and killed a Lyft driver.. I still hold that guilt.. I feel guilty cause I wish there was something I could have done.. that man had children and a wife.. I know my situation is not anywhere near as horrible as this man’s. But I do feel the guilt, I’ve had to go to therapy cause of it.. My boyfriend isn’t bothered, but it haunts me.. I am in no way trying to downplay this man’s grief, I’m just trying to give my story. May everyone who died that day rest in piece.
Yes survivors remorse is a form of PTSD
I was only 6 yrs old when this happened but I will never forget my dad pulling the car over when he heard over the radio. We were from Athens, GA it broke so many people's hearts. Bless this man. Decades later still bust out crying hearing him discuss.
My great uncle, Pete Naputano, played for Marshall during this time. He was out on injury when the crash happened. I think he has survivors remorse to this day.
As a Marshall student, I've seen the Fountain a thousand times, and I'm reminded of how short life can be. That plane crashed on and near my ex-father-in-law's property. He was the first there. He can not even think of that without tears. So many young people. So many lives. There is a lookout over the former wreckage site, and we have a special display at the Foundation Hall. They will never be forgotten.
We. Are. Marshall.
So true. As a former RA and coming back to Marshall...I have a lot to give back.
Well said.
That last sentence got me
Sad 😞 story he’s injury saved his live, whole team, he feels broken his whole life.
My daughter teaches there now. I am setting a mile from the site. I was young at the time but my mom drove up there as a nurse hoping some were alive. I remember her coming back crying. I still visit the site on occasion. They are gone but not forgotten. Marshall has done a great job to never let them be forgotten. WE ARE......MARSHALL
Thanks so much for sharing this! I am a Son of Marshall and not one day goes by that I don't think about the 75. They will never be forgotten as long as I am alive! Go Herd...WE ARE...MARSHALL!!!
This reminds me of my first day going back to work in NYC after 9/11. The headline in the newspaper that day as I was boarding the Ferry to midtown was “10,000 Feared Dead.” I was completely speechless and couldn’t even look at anyone for fear of falling apart…
Regardless of the number, I imagine the overwhelming feeling was similar, especially for those who knew the victims of this tragic crash personally…
Obviously, everyone grieves in their own way and in their own time, but I do believe it is important to try to talk about your grief at some point, rather than burying it for years or decades.
I hope that finally talking about it helped this man in some way…. 🙏🏼😇💙
Thank you sir and may you be better and hopefully you someday may heal.?
Coach Gene Parker was a neighbor 2 doors down.
I was 12 years old and can remember my daddy crying when the announcement was made over the TV.
The neighbors went to check on Mrs. Parker to find out he was with Red on scout trip.
I feel everyday for you and those who didn't make trip and what you must deal with, Sorry.
You will always be a living memory of why we remember and celebrate the 75.
Thank You
We Are MARSHALL
When the gentleman was talking about how a bunch of kids ( who were strangers to each other ) came together and bonded as family. Eating together, training together, showering together, etc. and then they were all dead ( 19- 20 yr olds ). The only ones who can relate to his pain are those who served in combat and were the sole survivor when all their buddies were killed ( 19- 20 yr olds ). They always ask "Why me? Why did I survive?". I'm 71 and my personal feeling is that we are put on this earth with a definite time for our death. It is not important when we are born or how we die. It is what we do with the time in between that matters. Live life every day as if it is your last day to be alive, because eventually it will be.
I love them better them family
My mother taught at Marshall 1969-71 so we were in Huntington at the time of the Marshall plane crash.
Main memory I have was how deserted & eerily quiet the town was the next day.
We lived in a house on 5th Ave. across from the campus. 5th Ave was 4-5 lanes all in same direction
while other direction (towards downtown) was 4-5 lane Avenue on other side of campus (3rd Ave.?).
Sunday not a single car would pass by on 5th Ave. for like 30 minutes or more at a time. Town was
totally in shock & disbelief, guess everyone staying inside for news updates and grieving in their own way.
Marcel Latjerman, the kicker was my friend & tennis teammate from Lyndhurst High School in New Jersey. He had a scholarship to Marshall. He could kick a 40 yard field goal ,no socks in his penny loafers. He was from Argentina and kicked soccer style. Great guy! RIP good buddy. His brother Moses was also a kicker and played professional football.
I recall he had a brother named Moe who is the wrestler for Lyndhurst high school he was a tough wrestler my brother wrestled for Kennedy high school I remember those matches I believe Mo wind up kicking for Monclair State College. Marcel rest in peace
@@mohammedguketlov5619 Yes, Moe was also a soccer style kicker. He was also on the tennis team. His doubles partner was Dave Allan. Moe also kicked for a team in World Football League. He was also on the NY Jets squad. Both of them are great guys.
Thank you for your story my father is Dave Walsh #10 from the Young Thundering Herd and this means so much to this town
My heart breaks for these families and survivours, I can't imagine the grief they must be feeling to this day
I️ cry every time I️ See an interview or the movie about this tragedy. I️ can’t imagine the heart break this community went through.
Me too, so sad, how he no ded
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An injury forced Dennis Foley off the 1970 Marshall University football team. He missed the Nov. 1970 plane crash that killed 75 of his friends, teammates, coaches and members of the Huntington, W.Va., community. Nearly fifty years later, Foley granted us his first interview about that fateful night and the days, weeks and months that followed.
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I saw the movie once!...just once!...as much as I loved it...I promised never to watch it again because of how deeply it impacted me emotionally. But here I am again...on Google...on RUclips watching videos: over four hours of videos, documentaries, interviews, tributes et cetera. And while I'm doing it, I'm mourning, and asking WHY? WHY? WHY? did this tragedy happen. I wish I could time travel and prevent it...and even Wichita States Team plane crash. I'm not an American, I wasn't even born yet...but somehow the loss feels so close to home. While watching Doug Foley's interview, I also felt his loss,(not to the same extent), and I could not help my tears.
I was a freshman at Ferrum Junior College. Many of the players and several of the coaches had transferred to Marshall and died that night. There is a memorial at Ferrum to Marshall Football Team. I will never forget!
Its encouraging to see that you can finally talk about this ! God Bless !
We talked at CCF 2 years ago. We wanted to meet last year at the fountain being turned off. I thank you for our conversation. I live in Huntington and I will try and meet you next year. Sorry I had a rough 2 years. I am praying for you. God bless. Dennis Foley
Hard to believe this is 50 years ago , today 11/14 /20
God bless you and your strength for talking about this sir, as I'm sure it was not, and never will be, an easy conversation. I can only imagine the amount of loss and grief you have gone through - always remembering the 75. You are so brave. I am a PROUD daughter of Marshall University. Marshall is who I am. WE ARE
I was down there as spectator at Fairfield Stadium in my teens from 1969-71 and beyond. I went to the road game opener at Morehead St in 1971. I can't watch the "We Are Marshall" movie any longer, and after about 3 viewings, it became too emotionally draining to do so any further. God bless you Mr. Foley.
When I was 7 or 8 my brother was a student at Syracuse university and me and my mom and my brother went to the memorial of the people who died.
I was a graduating senior when the plane went down.. It hits me hard every year. My ex-wife was a classmate of several of the football players. It hit us hard then. In honor of the team, I came back in May or June to "walk" in the 1971 Class graduation.
It is a bookmark of my undergraduate years. The first book mark is I started to Marshall about three weeks after leaving Vietnam (Navy); January 1967,
Wow thank you sir for your service
Zack Owens, (blush) thank you. I appreciate it. In addition, I restarted the Veterans Club at Marshall which had been dormant, we think, since the post Korean War era.
Thank you! I was a kid in Virginia when I saw this on the news. I did not know anyone but being only 10 years old made me very sad. Later as I was older, seeing the movie really rekindled those early feelings. What you just told the world, in this short video has touched me and everyone else in a way the movie couldn’t. When the Marshall Football team came to Norfolk Va a few years ago to play ODU in their first football game together, it was special. When I heard the Marshall fans chanting, “We are Marshall”, I just had to sit and all I could think was the lives lost. Hearing those chants made me feel better. Thank you again for sharing your story and honoring your teammates and friends. God had a reason for you not being on that plane and that was to heal everyone with your story. Thank You!!
My mother-in-laws cousin Dr. Ray Hagley was the team physician. Dr. Hagley and his wife Shirley both died in the crash leaving behind 6 children.
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it is just one of those things that never goes away no matter how much time has passed
God Bless this man as he continues to struggle with the loss. As someone who shared the experience of playing college football, I cannot imagine how I would go on if the vast majority of my team mates were all killed the same night. I understand why he didn't want to talk
That was very touching. Heartfelt wishes to Dennis for some peace in his life. Thank you for sharing. They are not forgotten.
I was only 11 when this took place and didn't know about it until the movie came out. That is so incredibly sad to lose so many young men who had only started into their adult lives. My empathy goes to the survivors as well as the families who lost friends, neighbors, kids, teammates, and all. Such a tragedy. I always smile when I hear the name Marshall during the college football seasons.
WE ARE MARSHALL
Wow The movie moved me but nothing like this guy 😭
i agree they all left home and came together at such a young age. it will never be the same for this man. God Bless him.i remember everyone from College like it was yesterday, but to endure this kind of pain. Every inch of his body and mind lives in pain. i am so sorry
great video, cannot imagine loosing all your friends,your life and then think about how you would have been on the plane.
watching this again. The Town and the people are exceptional and show us all the power of the human spirit. love and blessings to them all from Canada.
this wonderful man not only grieves for his mates, but takes us all back to a time when we made our first friendships..college. i watch the movie every year and send this man and the families prayers.
God Bless Mr Foley and family; this was a turning point in his life 💚💛🙏🏼
Wow. I remember reading about this when I was 12 years old... This was a moving video. Thanks for sharing
I love my friends and team mates with all my heart ..
Thank you for sharing your story. I know that must of been hard. It's almost like a holocaust survivor, many died, made no sense. It helps to talk about it and always try to keep their memory alive. Again thank you
So very sad. It's no wonder he could never talk about for so long. From anyone that was a part of the school during that time. It was so much loss at one time. Just too much to comprehend. Bless him for bringing up those memories !
Rest In Peace Marshall Herd .
this is so sad :( i’m about to start college this year, life is short and unpredictable i’m so sorry this happened ❤️
AWESOME testimonial!
This alum of mine speaks the truth...South Hall (Holderby) was my responsibility with others whom are very special.
We are Marshall
Thanks. I really appreciated hearing you speak.
Thank you for sharing. I never thought about the fact that Debbie might have been there. She was a sorority sister that was probably there to pick up her parents. I hope many who were not attending at or near that time will hear this.
To this day, a tragedy of heartbreak.....RIP to all.
Thank you for sharing I can only imagine what he was feeling prayers to you and yours and all impacted.
God bless you, your heart, your mind, and spirit sir
they should never be forgotten
They won't
R.I.P. to everyone on the plane.
Lots of people die tragically, none should be forgotten.
Helicopter crash in 1992 into the Gulf of Mexico. 4 of us were in the helo when it went down. only two of us were pulled out 2 days later. Why did I survive? We both held onto the bodies of our friends until the USCG picked us up. Having to talk to so many people investigators, lawyers, company lawyers, NTSB, family member's lawyers.
My own family looked at me a little strange and differently.
I'm just rambling on and thinking about everything that happened when I came across this video. I dont know what I'm saying I guess just an old man living in the past waiting for the guilt to get better and fade away but I guess it never will.
time stands still in november in huntington- love mu --
thank you for sharing - healing is on going -----
Such a tragic event
The air traffic controller would have seen the explosion as the crash was 1.4 miles from the airport. I really feel bad for him and I bet he probably had PTSD as a result.
Peace to you brother. R.I.P. to all of the staff of Marshall for thst day.
I wasn't around yet to hear this story but when the movie came out it brought me to tears knowing it was a true story and how they portrayed it but this is the first I've seen of someone talk who was there and I have to say that my heart breaks even more now and o don't think that I can watch the movie anymore because now hearing and seeing the true survivors guilt in this man is emotionally pariylizing, I got to briefly witness the world in better times (early 80's) and I remember back then how a small town came together and loved thy neighbor so to imagine a tragdedy like this happening back then and the toll it took on a small town completely breaks my heart
RIP...🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Never Forget!
God bless you. You'll see them again.
Absolutely
I’ve seen the movie and I’m glad to have come across this video.
WE ARE......MARSHALL!!!!!!
Imagine an injury ends up saving your life. Creepy. But life works in strange ways.
The pain never lets you forget.
My maternal aunt was a journalist for Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.. During 1971's Marshall University's graduation and commencement week, she submitted a three-part article which was published over the three days immediately preceding that weekend's commencement ceremonies. While her work was not nominated for a Pulitzer that year, several families wrote letters to the editor, and PNI's "Board of Editorials, and Editorial Opinion", thanking both publications for making an effort to (both) put faces on the story, and informing the 'combined readership' of the intense effort put forth by nearly everyone associated with the school with regards to alumni efforts to help Marshall University as a whole to heal, and perpetuate the memories of those lost "that gloomy, overcast Saturday".
SUCH A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY
watching this again, sending prayers
This happened the year I was born. I was way far away in Southern California, but one of the first books my dad read me, atleast that i can remember, was a book on that Marshall team and that tragedy. The movie they made brought this story into the limelight, but it was curiously somewhat forgotten as i goit older You didnt hear much about it (maybe that was because we had such a lack of content at the time with television just having a handful or more of stations...definitely one of the darker moments, and one of the most triumphant in college football history. I thought they did an outstanding job with the movie. One of my all time favorites
Took great courage for him and his wife to talk. It's hard for the living after something like this happens but I do believe all of the victims have been happy in heaven since 1970. The living survivors will meet them someday when God calls them and the pain of their loss will be no longer as everyone will be joyous together again.
Working in Football, getting a chance to stop by there on a visit. Its surreal. The history and what this program has been through, that city...almost feel like time stood still there
Oh how horrific! 😭😢🥺
Honestly dennis, someday you will reunite with all of friends who lost their lives on that tragic day. They will be so happy to see you.😇😇😇
it is marc 5, 2020 and I still am grieving, every minute, over the death of jfk back in 1963. I still have not recovered and I guess I never will.
The one's closest to it, to this day they are in the midst of Post Trauma Stress ....
And those that survive will always deal with it. But the important thing is to not let it consume you, which isn’t easy. And to live your life in a manner that honors that passed.
thank you
this is so sad 😢😢😢
Does anyone know Ed Carter ? He missed that flight as well. We were in Bible College together. He is a preacher who has a great testimony. concerning this tragedy.
Not Nate Ruffian?
I looked for his testimony on RUclips but couldn't find it.
*Ed Carter*
"Well, you see...there I was. I was stealing money from religious retards when I was supposed to be on a plane. I was shouting THOU SHALT GO TO HELL IF THY DON'T HELP PAY FOR MY MERCEDES AND COCAINE STASH!!! and then I learned the news a day later while tripping balls. I was a lucky bastard. Instead of watching those uneducated spoiled rich kids lose, I abused heavy drugs and robbed people of their spending cash in God's name. Does this make me a bad person? It probably does, but thou who shalt not give to the church of God shalt burn in the fire. So donate now children, and I promise you, I will use SOME of that money to help the church."
Yeah I heard his testimony. I think it kind of sucked ass.
Poor kids... :-(
I remember when the plane crashed and it was like the whole town was mourning.
We all do.😥❤️💔
I had no knowledge about this, will watch the movie tomorrow
A kid from my town John Johnstonbaugh was a player on the team, we haven’t heard from him in our town after that. I think he was a Freshman at the time.
🙏🙏🙏 and ❤❤❤ to you Sir.
My heart bleeds for you. God bless you. It was God's plan for you not to play. You can't feel guilty over something you had no control over.
You should probably go to the Hospital man. Internal Bleeding is a serious issue.
51 years ago tonight
My grandpa went to this school during the crash and hates to talk about it
For 20 years I lived in Greenville NC and I knew people who played in that game. They don’t like talking about it either. ECU did not play the next weekend because the team was in no condition to play the game.
@@stephenlewis8498 interesting
There was a crash a month before Marshals I just found out about. I believe it was a team in Whichita?
Witchita state yes
In 1977 the University of Evansville basketball team crashed on takeoff from the local airport in a DC-3. All aboard were killed.
I assume everyone highlighted at the end wasn't on the plane and survived. Does that sound right?
That's correct.
This tragic event and the young American Soldiers who actually served and were wounded or died n all our wars just tears me apart. AKA "Saving Private Ryan".
In the movie it said he and the other injured player Nate Ruffin were at the movies when the crash happened. Either way so sad 😞
Imagine right when the crash happened, something funny happened in the movie and they laughed.
Retro Games Made Easy I can’t remember what movie it was but I don’t think it was a comedy. In the movie they stopped the movie to let everyone know what happened. Not so sure what happened in real life
@@ckotcher1 that part of the movie was accurate, just wasn’t all of the injured players at the theater
My 1 wife aunt her son was quarter back for Marshall I fixed his picture on his tomb stone in Thema ky its sad
We are... Marshall
Back then men were not supposed to cry. They were supposed to be stern, brave, stoic. One important thing that came of women’s reach for equality was it became socially acceptable for men to acknowledge their feelings, especially grief.
It was quick for those on the plane. How tragic and sad for the others who were left behind. So many souls lost.
Of course he does. Some broken hearts never mend. I know it is a different deal, but when Paul Newman was in the navy in WW 2, he was assigned to a ship. He was put on sick call, and was sent back to a land based hospital. The ship got bombed and destroyed, almost everyone perished. Those closest to him said he rarely spoke of it, but it haunted him til the day it dies.
Hopefully you can come to grips with one of life's MILLION tragedies....although you probably will never understand it until....A world called ETERNITY that we all will enter...how else can you understand the un- understandable??
Moving
R.I.M
Are the one's light up at !0:15 the survivors?
Must be, the guy speaking was number 55 and he is lit up.
I believe so! Why doesn't this RUclipsr reply back 🤔
Yes. 18 players and staff from the team were left survived because they were not on the plane that crashed that day. There are 18 people lit up.
@@JB-zo7ln Thanks, I was wondering the same thing…
Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on the same flight with Buddy Holly, but gave up his seat to the Big Bopper.
Waylon couldn't even talk about the crash, for 20 years.
As a joke, apparently when Buddy Holly found out he had switched seats with the Big Bopper he said, “I hope your ol bus freezes up”, to which Waylon replied, “Well I hope your ol plane crashes!”….. I know he obviously didn’t mean it but to have that be your last words… im not shocked at all he couldn’t talk about it 🥺 Survivors guilt x1000 ☹️