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As Wisconsin prepares to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy, few recall that the story began in Milwaukee boardrooms and Wisconsin ports. Before she vanished beneath the waves of Lake Superior, the Fitzgerald was financed, named, and launched through Milwaukee connections — and crewed in part by six Wisconsin men whose families still feel the loss.…