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DETROIT (AP) - A crowd of 600 people stood silently Sunday as bells rang 29 times in remembrance of the mariners lost when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a vicious storm on Lake Superior 30 years ago.
"The bell is the voice of feelings we feel that are difficult to articulate," the Rev. Richard Ingalls said as the bells tolled at the Mariners' Church of Detroit.
Sailors in dress uniforms joined those packed into the small sanctuary, singing "Mariner's Hymn" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Gordon Lightfoot ballad that immortalized ship and crew.
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