A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog about the tenth anniversary of the OSU plane crash. One of my good friends, and fellow OSU alums sent me this wonderful article written by Doug Gottlieb, a former OSU basketball player and current ESPN analyist. It's long, but it's worth reading.
Doug graduated the year before the plane crash. He knew everyone on board. He had flown in the exact plane, on the way home from the exact game, two years earlier. He describes each of the men who were lost that day; he describes them as his friends.
He talks about going to school in Stillwater, playing for the Cowboys, and what it means to Remember The Ten. He also talks about how painful it had to have been for Coach Sutton to make those 10 phone calls 9 years ago, and how he thinks the pain is something he never got over. He talks about even though Stillwater has changed, people still remember.
This is honestly what being a member of the OSU family is about. It's a network of people who have shared experiences...whether you walked across the campus 4 years ago or 40, you are connected with everyone else who bleeds orange.
This is why we remember The Ten. This is why I'm proud to be a Cowboy.
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