This is truly a shame.

http://cbs2.com/local/Crash.Fullerton.Deadly.2.980624.html

Just an absolute shame.  One of the reports also stated that another of the victims in the crash was also in the Angels Organization but no other names have been released yet.

This absolutely kills me.  I just cannot believe the senseless tragedy.  Go with God, Nick.  My prayers are with your family and friends.

Absolutely heartbreaking.

So very wrong…so very sad.  *sigh*

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Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields were glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

From “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman

Sara K, thanks for posting the poem.  Beautiful and appropriate.  Very sad.