On our way home to Michigan from Texas in April of 2024, we spotted a highway sign that led us down this small road in southern Mississippi. It's a remote spot, a few hundred yards from where the plane carrying members of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band crashed on October 20 in 1977. Six people died: Ronnie Van Sant (lead vocalist and founding member), Steve Gaines (guitarist/vocalist), Cassie Gaines (backing vocalist), Dean Kilpatrick (assistant road manager), and the Captain, Walter McCreary, and First Officer, William John Gary. The other 20 people on the plane survived.
There are no gravesites here, just a lovely memorial.
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"
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