Friday; February 2
The three young rock stars were riding a wave of popularity. Charles Hardin Holly, was 22 years old, Richard Steven Valenzuela was 17 years old and J. P. Richardson was 28 when their plane left Clear Lake, Iowa in the early morning hours of February 3, 1959. None of them would live to see another birthday. On the day the music died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper went from having a lifetime filled with potential to the rock and roll history books when their plane crashed in an Iowa cornfield. In a sense, their “careers” have continued as their music has lasted through the ages, but their lives stopped right then and there. Whether it was fair or not, their lives ended way too early. I believe we comfort ourselves by thinking that we have a lot of time left ahead of us, but we need to remember that no one is guaranteed another day much less a long life. The Bible reminds us, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a y