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On June 4, 2007, a team of heroes died tragically while attempting to carry out a lifesaving mission. On that day, a small jet airplane carrying four members of a University of Michigan transplant team, and the pilot and co-pilot, crashed into Lake Michigan off Milwaukee while on the return leg of a Survival Flight mission to transport organs for a U-M patient.
The memory of those we lost -- David Ashburn, Richard Chenault II, Dennis Hoyes, Ricky LaPensee, Bill Serra and Martin Spoor -- will endure at the U-M Health System, in the minds of those who knew them, and the hearts of those they cared for or flew. As the comments on this Web site attest, all of them touched innumerable lives, and left an indelible mark in the too-short time they shared with us. If your life intersected in any way with theirs, we invite you to post your own comments as well.
The sculpture and the garden that surrounds it are intended to be a place of remembrance and rededication to the ongoing work of organ transplantation and health care.
