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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Thirty years after their plane crashed in the Andes, forcing them to eat the flesh of their dead friends during a 72-day survival ordeal, 14 amateur Uruguayan rugby players finally played a match that had been postponed for three decades.
A Catholic Mass held in the center of the playing field, and the game itself, were an emotional recollection of the episode that marked their lives and astonished many around the world.
"We came to play the match we couldn't play 30 years ago," survivor Roberto Canessa, now a doctor, said Saturday.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/10/13/chile.survivors.ap/index.html
No mention what was on the reunion dinner menu though.
A Catholic Mass held in the center of the playing field, and the game itself, were an emotional recollection of the episode that marked their lives and astonished many around the world.
"We came to play the match we couldn't play 30 years ago," survivor Roberto Canessa, now a doctor, said Saturday.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/10/13/chile.survivors.ap/index.html
No mention what was on the reunion dinner menu though.
