I've never experienced the death of a young person as a friend or family member, so far, luckily. But I can imagine it is very very sad. Thanks for sharing. I hope you don't feel in any way responsible for the death, because you pointed out that the boys were on their way home from visiting your house. Come to think of it, though, one of my earliest traumatic memories is of an airplane collision in the airspace near my house on Staten Island, New York, on December 16, 1960. An 11-year-old boy died after one day after being the sole survivor, "The Boy Who Fell From The Sky." I was only two years old, so I have a very incomplete toddler's memory of it. I had many nightmares over it. Bodies rained down over Staten Island, and my uncle, who was a police officer, was on-the-scene where one of the planes crashed, on what was then called Miller's Field on Staten Island. Wrapped Christmas presents were mixed with pieces of bodies and aircraft. Stephen Baltz, the boy, was on the front page of the Daily News, in a heartbreaking photo. I remember that photo. I have this recurring fantasy (or hope or wish) that Time is NOT real - Physicists Show Everything Happens At the Same Time, and that in some way I will "someday" be a "Catcher in the Rye" and help to escort those young souls into an parallel universe. Sounds crazy, I know, but modern physics often sounds much crazier than science fiction! From Chapter 22 of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield says: "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |