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What happens when we bury life with the dead? We give up the future. We give up receiving new blessings, a vision of new horizons, and we bleed daily grief.

One of the cheerleaders was engaged to the quarterback. She kept the ring on over the months and decided against the very dream of moving to California to attend college. This had been the dream of the couple. When her fianc?’s father finally came to terms with his son’s death, he realized she was staying out of loyalty for him. Wisely, he encouraged her to go on with her life's dream.

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Thirty-six years ago, Marshall University varsity football team suffered a blow affecting the college and their community. Returning from an away game on their first airplane trip, the plane went down in the forest at the edge of the runway killing 76 players, coaches, and boosters. No one survived.

This tragedy made its way to the movie screen in 2006. The movie is unlike many representations created by Hollywood. The producers, director and actors worked hard to accurately portray the events as a community suffered a loss, which seemed too much to ever recover from.

A young, unknown coach from Ohio watched the events unfold while the MU college president tried to secure a new coach. The College Board nearly abandoned the program, had it not been for a young varsity player, named Ruffin, who gathered students to remind them that they wanted to rebuild the program. Ruffin was not on the plane due to an injury which kept him from the game.

Refusal after refusal for the coaching position was returned to President Dendnon, until he received a call from Jack Lengyel from Ohio. Lengyel convinced the college president that he could do the job. He arrived to discover that he had to rebuild a team with only 4 varsity players remaining and freshman players ineligible due to NCAA rules.

The story carries us through the grief process of parents, townsmen, students, wives, cheerleaders, and the survivor’s guilt of assistant coach Red Dawson. Lengyel was the coach from the outside, who lit the beacon of hope but not without resistance.

Scheduled to play their first home game, Lengyel was going out on the field with a team, made up of mostly out of town freshmen recruits. They had no history or memories of loss with the community, except for the 3 remaining varsity who stayed on the team. Lengyvel took them all out to the memorial in the cemetery and brought them to a memory of six graves unmarked since they could not identify the bodies. He paid tribute to the memory of the team that had played on the field only the year before. And then he ended his speech with, “The funerals are over, we have to begin on the future.

I’ve watched that scene several times in trailers promoting the movie. Each time it has made a deeper mark on my vision of recovering from grief and loss. The town and the college directors were so wounded they wanted to turn from the reminders of what had been and to bury the memories along with the football program.

What happens when we bury life with the dead? We give up the future. We give up receiving new blessings, a vision of new horizons, and we bleed daily grief.

One of the cheerleaders was engaged to the quarterback. She kept the ring on over the months and decided against the very dream of moving to California to attend college. This had been the dream of the couple. When her fianc?’s father finally came to terms with his son’s death, he realized she was staying out of loyalty for him. Wisely, he encouraged her to go on with her life's dream.

This is the beginning of a New Year. If you have

tched the events unfold while the MU college president tried to secure a new coach. The College Board nearly abandoned the program, had it not been for a young varsity player, named Ruffin, who gathered students to remind them that they wanted to rebuild the program. Ruffin was not on the plane due to an injury which kept him from the game.

Refusal after refusal for the coaching position was returned to President Dendnon, until he received a call from Jack Lengyel from Ohio. Lengyel convinced the college president that he could do the job. He arrived to discover that he had to rebuild a team with only 4 varsity players remaining and freshman players ineligible due to NCAA rules.

The story carries us through the grief process of parents, townsmen, students, wives, cheerleaders, and the survivor’s guilt of assistant coach Red Dawson. Lengyel was the coach from the outside, who lit the beacon of hope but not without resistance.

Scheduled to play their first home game, Lengyel was going out on the field with a team, made up of mostly out of town freshmen recruits. They had no history or memories of loss with the community, except for the 3 remaining varsity who stayed on the team. Lengyvel took them all out to the memorial in the cemetery and brought them to a memory of six graves unmarked since they could not identify the bodies. He paid tribute to the memory of the team that had played on the field only the year before. And then he ended his speech with, “The funerals are over, we have to begin on the future.

I’ve watched that scene several times in trailers promoting the movie. Each time it has made a deeper mark on my vision of recovering from grief and loss. The town and the college directors were so wounded they wanted to turn from the reminders of what had been and to bury the memories along with the football program.

What happens when we bury life with the dead? We give up the future. We give up receiving new blessings, a vision of new horizons, and we bleed daily grief.

One of the cheerleaders was engaged to the quarterback. She kept the ring on over the months and decided against the very dream of moving to California to attend college. This had been the dream of the couple. When her fianc?’s father finally came to terms with his son’s death, he realized she was staying out of loyalty for him. Wisely, he encouraged her to go on with her life's dream.

This is the beginning of a New Year. If you hav

ty players remaining and freshman players ineligible due to NCAA rules.

The story carries us through the grief process of parents, townsmen, students, wives, cheerleaders, and the survivor’s guilt of assistant coach Red Dawson. Lengyel was the coach from the outside, who lit the beacon of hope but not without resistance.

Scheduled to play their first home game, Lengyel was going out on the field with a team, made up of mostly out of town freshmen recruits. They had no history or memories of loss with the community, except for the 3 remaining varsity who stayed on the team. Lengyvel took them all out to the memorial in the cemetery and brought them to a memory of six graves unmarked since they could not identify the bodies. He paid tribute to the memory of the team that had played on the field only the year before. And then he ended his speech with, “The funerals are over, we have to begin on the future.

I’ve watched that scene several times in trailers promoting the movie. Each time it has made a deeper mark on my vision of recovering from grief and loss. The town and the college directors were so wounded they wanted to turn from the reminders of what had been and to bury the memories along with the football program.

What happens when we bury life with the dead? We give up the future. We give up receiving new blessings, a vision of new horizons, and we bleed daily grief.

One of the cheerleaders was engaged to the quarterback. She kept the ring on over the months and decided against the very dream of moving to California to attend college. This had been the dream of the couple. When her fianc?’s father finally came to terms with his son’s death, he realized she was staying out of loyalty for him. Wisely, he encouraged her to go on with her life's dream.

This is the beginning of a New Year. If you hav

the memorial in the cemetery and brought them to a memory of six graves unmarked since they could not identify the bodies. He paid tribute to the memory of the team that had played on the field only the year before. And then he ended his speech with, “The funerals are over, we have to begin on the future.

I’ve watched that scene several times in trailers promoting the movie. Each time it has made a deeper mark on my vision of recovering from grief and loss. The town and the college directors were so wounded they wanted to turn from the reminders of what had been and to bury the memories along with the football program.

What happens when we bury life with the dead? We give up the future. We give up receiving new blessings, a vision of new horizons, and we bleed daily grief.

One of the cheerleaders was engaged to the quarterback. She kept the ring on over the months and decided against the very dream of moving to California to attend college. This had been the dream of the couple. When her fianc?’s father finally came to terms with his son’s death, he realized she was staying out of loyalty for him. Wisely, he encouraged her to go on with her life's dream.

This is the beginning of a New Year. If you hav

l program.

What happens when we bury life with the dead? We give up the future. We give up receiving new blessings, a vision of new horizons, and we bleed daily grief.

One of the cheerleaders was engaged to the quarterback. She kept the ring on over the months and decided against the very dream of moving to California to attend college. This had been the dream of the couple. When her fianc?’s father finally came to terms with his son’s death, he realized she was staying out of loyalty for him. Wisely, he encouraged her to go on with her life's dream.

This is the beginning of a New Year. If you have not left the funeral yet, I encourage you to do so now. Have you lost a job, a loved one, become incapicated in some way? Whatever the loss there is no honor grieving the loss forever.

To be frank time moves each day to a new day. You have the capacity to search for a new position or career to pursue. True, it may take some time, but inbetween get out there to meet and discover what is available. Physical losses require courage to rebuild or discover to ways to rehabilitate our body. Losses of loved ones are hard but remember they are not grieving anymore, they have moved to another plane of life.

Do you or your loved ones really want you to stay frozen in time? It’s time to move into the future