A review of We Are Marshall, Al Carelli, GCHS Alumni Died in that Plane Crash

I saw \”We Are Marshall\” last night. It was really good. The type of resilient spirit and \”no quit\” mentality that you\’d find in Gloucester City, is the same type displayed by the folks of Marshall and the Huntington, WV area.

The story was less about the crash and more about how Marshall and the city pulled themselves together after the loss of 75 lives, minutes from the time they were to touch down at the airport on a trip home from East Carolina. It\’s a hell of a thing to grow up with someone, and go to high school with him, only to later in life to be walking into a movie theater about three miles from where Al and I grew up, and seeing a movie about how he died so tragically.

I think that anyone who went to Gloucester Catholic with Al Carelli, and any of the guys from Gloucester High who knew him and played against him, would find real value in the movie. I mention all this because the movie has been there for a few weeks already and probably won\’t be there too much longer. Knowing the fine spirit and character you show Bill by producing your Notebook, virtually assures me that this movie will be your kind of story.