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Bluffton University remembers fatal 2007 crash victims

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The current Bluffton baseball team surrounds the pedestal and sculpture called 'Touching Home' created by Bluffton faculty-artist Gregg Luginbuhl, during a memorial service at the Circle of Remembrance to recognize the 10th anniversary of the 2007 baseball team's fatal bus accident in Atlanta, Ga.

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Bluffton head baseball coach James Grandey, left, and Tim Berta, both survivors of a bus crash that killed five Bluffton University baseball players in 2007, hug during a memorial service.

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Tim Berta, a survivor of the 2007 bus crash that killed five of his Bluffton University baseball teammates, puts his hand in his own hand imprint in the sculpture called 'Touching Home.'

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Bluffton head baseball coach James Grandey who was injured in a bus crash that killed five of the university's baseball players in 2007, puts his hand in his own imprint on the sculpture called 'Touching Home.'

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Emily Eickholt of Ottoville, Ohio, whose aunt and uncle Jerome and Jean Niemeyer died in a bus crash that killed five Bluffton University baseball players in 2007, cries during a memorial service at the Circle of Remembrance on Thursday.

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