Tom Tiffany: “Here in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, they…”

“To commemorate the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And I think it speaks to two things. One, the power of Lake Superior. But also the American people and their resilience. Because Here in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, they produce the taconite that becomes the steel that has helped build America. That resilience continues on. Yet today, may the legend live on. From the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitchigumi.” (00:51–00:57)

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