Thank you for the coverage of the 30th anniversary of the Aces plane crash, which is still vivid in the minds of those who lived here then. May I add a small historical footnote?

You used "The night it rained tears" as your primary headline but with no reference to where the words came from. You also reprinted pages from The Evansville Courier and The Evansville Press but not the page on which the headline originally appeared.

The original headline, "The night it rained tears," was printed in the Sunday Courier & Press on Dec. 18, 1977, a few days after the plane crash.

The Sunday Courier & Press at that time was a separate newspaper with its own staff. Tom Kunkel, now dean of the journalism school at the University of Maryland, wrote a fine perspective on the tragedy. Other staffers contributed to the newspaper's coverage. The "tears" headline, which I wrote, topped Kunkel's story.

The headline later was used as a theme for a display at Roberts Stadium that pays tribute to those who died in the crash. Those of us who were at the Sunday Courier & Press at the time are honored to have had a small role in helping the community forever remember those who lost their lives.

Bill Jackson