Let's look at the numbers.
How many lives does one person impact? It is a huge number.
Think about it. Before you're out in the world, just getting through school, you know well over a thousand people. You meet people every day, through work, through church, through hobbies, through life.
So what does it mean to the world when a hundred and ninety nine people are suddenly gone?
There's a hole in the fabric of life, and it's one that no patch can fix.
The tam air crash is one that left parents without children.
It left children without parents.
It is a tragedy that stole sisters and brothers.
It stole the lives of children and grandchildren who will never be born.
Standing around courtrooms and boardrooms, there will be companies that talk about catastrophic loss of life--but those are only words.
What of those children who wake in the night, and cry for parents they will never see again? What of the wives and husbands who won't wash a shirt because it still bears the scent of their other half, who won't fluff a pillow because it still bears the shape of someone who will never sleep in that bed again?
There is no measure for the loss of a life. What is the measure of the loss of a hundred and ninety-nine lives?
You are gone, but not forgotten.
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