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Tears of a tragedy

Tears of millions of Americans have scarcely dried since the tragic mid-air collision of a passenger airliner with a military helicopter on January 29 in the icy waters of the Potomac River in Washington, DC.A total of 70 victims--64 passengers, a crew of three and three in the helicopter--lost their lives a handful of seconds and a few hundred feet short of the Ronald Reagan National Airport runway, some 1,200 miles from Wichita, KS, where the flight originated some three hours earlier.We’ve always heard that such tragedies “come in threes.” Prayers abound for all who perished, as well as for ...

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