Terrible things happen in the world. Awful things happen to a lot of people and now awful things have happened to all of those people on that plane. Well, I guess, to their relatives. From all reports, the passengers on the plane would have been killed instantly, so there was no pain for them, just the end. Blink. Over. Gone. Mercifully, I would add.
But, there is nothing the relatives of MH17 can do now. Write their open letters to the world leaders, but what will that do? Maybe, it might bring the perpetrators’ to justice, maybe, eventually, but what justice? It wasn’t personal, it was war. What justice is there in war?
It was sealed the minute that rocket was launched. It was sealed the moment that Russia invaded Ukraine. It was sealed with the annexation of Crimea. It was sealed when the USSR was broken up in 1991.
It was a war zone and we sanction war. We send troops to fight wars. We invade countries and fight wars. (Australia has ordered how many billions of dollars worth of war machinery airplanes?) Your children, your relatives, were a casualty of war. They were collateral damage.
Accept it with dignity, that is all you have left to you now. It is a terrible thing, for sure, but nothing can change it now. Look after yourselves, let grief go. Forgive.
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I noticed today a story on the Fairfax news website about a Perth couple going over to the Ukraine b/c they believe their daughter is still alive. Unbelievable.
It is terribly sad. Their daughter was beautiful and very accomplished, not that how she looked was important, I guess.
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