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Gallery: MU Memorial, Nov. 14, 2008

The 75 victims of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash were remembered Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, in the annual memorial service conducted in their honor around the Memorial Fountain.

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November 14, 2008 @ 05:19 PM

HUNTINGTON -- Students, alumni and friends of Marshall University gathered Friday for the 38th anniversary of the plane crash that claimed the lives of 75 people, including most of the 1970 Marshall football team.

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The 75 victims of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash were remembered Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, in the annual memorial service conducted in their honor around the Memorial Fountain.

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Marshall University student Karen Finely, left, of Hurricane lays a flower at the base of the Marshall University Memorial Fountain on Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, during the annual memorial service conducted in honor of the 75 victims of the Marshall plane crash of 1970.

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Members of the Marshall University extended family bow their heads during a closing prayer near the end of Friday's ceremony, remembering the 75 victims of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash.

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Donna Flowers, right, of Barboursville, points out the name of her brother, Barry Nash, as she shows three-year-old Alden Flowers the placard with the names the 75 victims of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash on Friday, November 14, 2008, following the annual memorial service conducted in honor of those who lost their lives in the tragedy.

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A row of flowers is lined out along the base of the Marshall University Memorial Fountain in honor of the 75 victims of the 1970 MU plane crash on Friday, November 14, 2008, during the annual memorial service on the Student Center Plaza.

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Matt Gabehart, of Nitro, a former student at Marshall University, stands in attendance as the 75 victims of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash were remembered Friday, November 14, 2008, at the annual memorial service conducted around the Memorial Fountain. "It's an inspiring story for anything I do," said Gabeheart.

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