WE ARE .........MARSHALL
For the past year or so, there has been filming of a new movie in Huntington and Atlanta. The film will be entitled "We Are Marshall" and will make its nationwide debut at the Keith-Albee Theater on December 12, 2006. Clips that I have seen and discussions on various tv shows and ESPN game telecasts lead me to believe it will be a hit. Some disagree, as is their priviledge, and I fully support their right to disagree. However, when a person includes, with that disagreement, a diatribe against my local area and its people, I tend to get a little upset. Following is a post to the Forum column of the local paper and my response to it.
Posted by Sliverlord---
"this movie is going to ####. I have lived in huntington for 10 years and all I hear about is the plane that went down like 40 years ago?? Who cares? Its not like they are suffering any more, they're dead. and as for the surviors, get over it, it has been 30+ years!! this movie will flop because noone outside of huntington gives 2 tugs of a dead dogs **** as to what happened here in the 60s."
(typed verbatim. He was apparently in quite a hurry, or quite upset.)
My response, also verbatim---
"Someone is going to be VERY surprised about the success of this film. A shoo-in for Oscar nomination, and quite possibly the winner, for both male actor and director.
As for getting over it, no, I won't get over it until my dying day. I was living out of the area at the time of the plane crash, so I do not know all that went on in the Huntington area immediately after the crash. But I know that, as a 28 year old man at the time, I sat and cried when I heard about it. And I still do when I think of the heartache every family even slightly involved went through.
That plane crash and concomitant results are indelibly etched into the fabric of everyone who lived in or near the area in late 1970. Neither you nor anyone like you will ever feel that emptiness, that sick heartbroken feeling that so very many of us feel, I pray. But, at the same time, you will never feel that wonderful, triumphant feeling that we all do whenever the Herd runs onto the field to play. Win or lose, they're still our beloved Herd.
Sure its been 36 years. But it takes a lifetime and a life's end to remove the love and affection we feel. And the hurt. And the pride.
I am a native to this area. I graduated from Marshall, and am proud of that degree. I put an awful lot of time and effort into putting myself through college, with no help from loans or grants. It paid off and I am now retired. And I am living where I want to be living. I have a love for this area and its people, with all its warts and all of their warts.
I earnestly hope you manage to stay in this area for the rest of your life. Should you be able to do so, you will find that the people at the end of your life will still be remembering that awful cold night back in 1970, even if they were not alive at that time. Such is the power of that type of event.
But, if you are unable to do so, always remember---
WE ARE MARSHALL.
And will be forever!"
And I offer no apology for my feelings.
Posted by Sliverlord---
"this movie is going to ####. I have lived in huntington for 10 years and all I hear about is the plane that went down like 40 years ago?? Who cares? Its not like they are suffering any more, they're dead. and as for the surviors, get over it, it has been 30+ years!! this movie will flop because noone outside of huntington gives 2 tugs of a dead dogs **** as to what happened here in the 60s."
(typed verbatim. He was apparently in quite a hurry, or quite upset.)
My response, also verbatim---
"Someone is going to be VERY surprised about the success of this film. A shoo-in for Oscar nomination, and quite possibly the winner, for both male actor and director.
As for getting over it, no, I won't get over it until my dying day. I was living out of the area at the time of the plane crash, so I do not know all that went on in the Huntington area immediately after the crash. But I know that, as a 28 year old man at the time, I sat and cried when I heard about it. And I still do when I think of the heartache every family even slightly involved went through.
That plane crash and concomitant results are indelibly etched into the fabric of everyone who lived in or near the area in late 1970. Neither you nor anyone like you will ever feel that emptiness, that sick heartbroken feeling that so very many of us feel, I pray. But, at the same time, you will never feel that wonderful, triumphant feeling that we all do whenever the Herd runs onto the field to play. Win or lose, they're still our beloved Herd.
Sure its been 36 years. But it takes a lifetime and a life's end to remove the love and affection we feel. And the hurt. And the pride.
I am a native to this area. I graduated from Marshall, and am proud of that degree. I put an awful lot of time and effort into putting myself through college, with no help from loans or grants. It paid off and I am now retired. And I am living where I want to be living. I have a love for this area and its people, with all its warts and all of their warts.
I earnestly hope you manage to stay in this area for the rest of your life. Should you be able to do so, you will find that the people at the end of your life will still be remembering that awful cold night back in 1970, even if they were not alive at that time. Such is the power of that type of event.
But, if you are unable to do so, always remember---
WE ARE MARSHALL.
And will be forever!"
And I offer no apology for my feelings.
posted by tanstaafl | 9:57 AM
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