The show must go on, regardless of circumstances, and it did. That spring, after the thaw, the Juhl's planted hay in the field where the plane crashed. They found lots of plane parts, a few body parts, and a few personal items, that were placed in an envelope in the county courthouse. Tourists continued to hound them, and they were more than happy to take them out to the crash site. Some of the lucky few were given souvenir plane pieces.
Life is fragile, fate is fickle.
We can only imagine what might have been and continue to listen to the music. The music makers suffered a terrible tragedy on that cold snowy night in rural Iowa, but their music has made them immortal. His widow, brothers and sister claim MCA conned Holly's parents into signing an agreement for rights to his music. In 1988, Buddy fan Ken Paquette built a monument to the singers , from stainless steel, and placed it at the crash site. The current owners of the land also planted 4 trees in memory of the victims, but they all died.