{"id":1773,"date":"2015-09-23T21:53:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2022-12-08T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:50:45","slug":"disasters-are-part-of-a-communitys-history-and-should-be-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/disasters-are-part-of-a-communitys-history-and-should-be-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Disasters Are Part of a Community&#8217;s History and Should be Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1774\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1774 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-23_17-49-40.jpg?resize=288%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"disasters are part of a community's past\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-23_17-49-40.jpg?resize=288%2C300&amp;ssl=1 288w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-23_17-49-40.jpg?resize=768%2C800&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-23_17-49-40.jpg?w=818&amp;ssl=1 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FB Memorial Page for the PSA Fligh5 182 which went down in San Diego Friday, September 25, 1978. https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PSA-Flight-182-Memorial-149177461803120\/timeline\/?ref=page_internal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A story about the passage of 37 years since a sudden, life-shattering tragedy hit San Diego came up in my Delmarva Newsfeed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, September 25, 1978, a beautiful, sunny southern California Day, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Fight 182 was on final descent into the airport when it collided with a Cessna. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycaviation.com\/2015\/09\/psa-flight-182\/#.VgMMvDZdFZU\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycaviation.com\/2015\/09\/psa-flight-182\/#.VgR7YvlVhBc\">Thirteen seconds later, the Boeing 727 smashed into the ground.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In those unimaginable few seconds, 144 people perished in the widely observed incident that morning at the end of the workweek. \u00a0So many lives (family members, the community, and the first responders) were shattered at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PSA-Flight-182-Memorial-149177461803120\/timeline\/?ref=page_internal\">moving FB memorial page <\/a>and an article from the aviation news site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycaviation.com\/2015\/09\/psa-flight-182\/#.VgR7YvlVhBc\">NYCAviation <\/a>reminded me of a similar experience in Cecil County with the \u201cflight 214 Remembrance Program.\u201d \u00a0On December 8, 2013, family members. the community and first responders paused to mark the passage of 50 years since the Pan American World Airways crashed at the edge of Elkton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cecilcountyhistory.com\/flight-214-remembrance-progra-goes-on\/\">The purpose of our program was <\/a>to honor the memory of those who died when the big plane exploded in flight and went down in a cornfield.\u00a0 It also honored the emergency personnel answering the alarm as periodic flashes of lighting illuminated a scene that would live with those firefighters and police officers throughout their lives.\u00a0 As that day in 2013 marked the passage of a half-century, we invited those affected to come together to honor the memory of those who perished and the generation of emergency personnel who answered the call.<\/p>\n<p>The experiences of the two communities, Elkton and San Diego, were similar in that unimaginable disasters struck, altering the lives of so many people. \u00a0For the Elkton community, no one living here would forget the sudden explosion in the sky on a stormy Sunday night in Cecil County as a thunderstorm swept through the area. \u00a0For the firefighters and police officers, It was something they, too, would never forget as they desperately searched for survivors in the cornfield. \u00a0One firefighter from the North East Volunteer Fire company, Steward W. Godwin, fell in the line of duty that night\u2014while combing the debris field, he suddenly collapsed and died.<\/p>\n<p>In San Diego, the PSA Flight 182 Memorial Committee is working to have a maker placed at the crash site.\u00a0 As the group noted, \u201cPSA 182 is a major part of San Diego\u2019s History.\u00a0 The memory of that day is still vivid in the minds of many San Diegans and continued to affect them as well as many of the first responders who were on duty\u00a0 . . . \u00a0Our hope is to create a memorial that will honor the victims, their families, the neighborhood, and the law enforcement and emergency workers that still live with the memories of what they saw that day.\u00a0 The memorial will be a place of peace and reflection that can be visited . . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Late last night, I looked over the committee\u2019s FB page as they get ready to gather on the 37<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the incident this Friday, September 25, at 9:02 a.m. in San Diego.\u00a0 For those in Elkton who answered the call and for the family members on the Maryland crash, <a href=\"http:\/\/cecilcountyhistory.com\/?s=flight+214+details+announced\">this is something we relate to as <\/a>you read the posts, remarks, and comments.\u00a0 It was a moving experience reading the page, and I hope to read soon that they have the support of the City and can place a memorial on the crash site.<\/p>\n<p>In Elkton, Mayor Joe Fisonia, several years before he was elected to public office, had a memorial placed on the site here.\u00a0 At the time, he was the president of the homeowners association in the area, and he is also a first responder with the Singerly Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>A sudden, horrible tragedy of this scope is part of a community\u2019s history, as the San Diego committee noted.\u00a0 It is a part of Elkton\u2019s history too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story about the passage of 37 years since a sudden, life-shattering tragedy hit San Diego came up in my Delmarva Newsfeed yesterday. 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