National Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash Day

We're not a praying man, but every year on this day we pray that Ronnie Van Zant is in Heaven, and our old man is kicking his ass at poker.

Comments

[Martijn]

Aren't you afraid this henceforth will be called Muammar Gaddafi Assassination Day? No, of course it will not. Who am I kidding. Although 'Gad' was the Charlie Sheen amongst dictators, I'm sure his fame will be very shortlived. Muammar Who?

Happy Birthday again!

[UF MIKE]

Gadhafi, Gashmafi. Ronnie Van Zant would have made a much better dictator. And thanks!

[Dan]

Happy birthday Mike.
Like most people i remember where i was and what i was doing on the inaugural NLSPCD. I was a teenager in a Volkswagen with the members of a band called Low Rent, we were headed to the shipwreck coast when the news came over the radio.
My old man was a huge fan, & when he tumbled off the twig I remember the mourners exiting the chapel as the solo in Free Bird cranked up, so I'd like to think he was up there in heaven playing poker with Ronnie too.

[UF MIKE]

Glad to hear somebody remembers where they were. I can't honestly remember where I was. I thought I was outside my dorm, but it occurs to me I'm conflating the plane crash with the news of the death of Keith Moon.

[bannedfrommikes]

I was at the Texas State Fair. I was wearing a sling, having broken my shoulder the weekend before. 'That Smell" was being played 100 times a day on the local radio station. After the crash they doubled down to 200 times a day.