Intelligent response necessary to build better world
I lost my best friend from high school in the plane that went down over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. David, with a manuscript for his first novel in his suitcase, was returning from Israel for the holidays on an early flight. That early flight turned out to be Pan Am Flight 103, which terrorists chose to blow into pieces. At many times since then, I have felt an immense sadness over the unnecessary loss of this young, promising, funny and at times controversial friend. My sadness, of course, will never match that of his father, who aged an extra 10 years in the week between the crash and David's funeral. I am lucky in that I did not lose any close friends or relatives in the recent attacks. Such losses feel inexplicably awful, and our loved ones cannot be replaced.