Topic: 50 years ago, Marshall’s plane crashed flying home from ECU. Remembering...

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Parker’s father, Gail, was the only person who took the flight down from Huntington, West Virginia, who was not on the flight back. But while Gail Parker’s life was spared — his fate decided in a matter of seconds by Marshall coach Rick Tolley — he would be forced to live with the staggering loss of so many he had known, forced to live with the why-me questions that are wrapped into survivor’s guilt.

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