Tribute to Fallen Angels

I wasn't going to do this. Everytime a sad passing of a well known person happens, memorial pages pop up. I am not putting them down at all...so please don't think that is what I mean. What I mean about not doing one in this instance...is that there are so many out there already that do more then my basic web design experience could ever do. However, today, I was waiting for some lab work to be done. There was a TV on in the waiting room, and quite a few others who were also waiting. Of course the news had a special on about the search for John F. Kennedy Jrs. plane. I was watching it intently, when I started listening to some of the people in there. One older man was saying how he knew how they felt...for he had lost a daughter in 1977. Another older woman was speaking about losing a granddaughter not too long ago...a 12 year old girl. Then there was one woman sitting there. She was embroidering and not even looking at anyone else. She said, "Yeah, there were 2 younger people killed at Kosovo, but you do not have headline news about that." She obviously seemed upset about the amount of media coverage that the Kennedy plane crash was receiving. My first reaction was to feel upset with her lack of sympathy. Then I stopped and thought about what she said, and replayed what the other people had said. The fact that there are people every day that die, should not lessen the grief Americans feel for the loss of John Jr. , his wife and sister-in-law. But on the other side of the coin, it should not take a tragedy of such perportions to bring out the sympathy of the Nation.
Yes, the loss of one so well known and loved is a great loss. He has done much work with helping those less fortunate. We should take the time to say prayers for his family, and to ask the Great Creator to help guide them to their other life.
But what we should also do...is to remember this feeling of loss...and look around each day and use it as a means to try to help those we come across each day of our lives. We should embrace the spirit that John Jr. lived with and reach out to the person that we normally would pass by (and pretend we didn't see). We should reopen our hearts to the blessings the Creator has given us and work diligently to keep it open.

When I first heard of this, as when Princess Diana's death was announced, I felt a great sense of being lost. This stumped me and confussed me. For I have never met eithor of these two people nor their families. I thought maybe it was because I was of the same generation as them. I was confused. I have come to the decision that is the way in which they gave back to humanity that has touched me (and many) so much. We all want to be thought of as decent people. But how can we give that impression if we do not live as such. Take the time you need to mourn in your own way the loss that has been suffered by this tragedy...then learn from it...life is not a guarentee...we are not told at our birth how many exact seconds we have on this earth. If you decide to wait till tomorrow to help the person huddled cold on the street, even if all you have to give is a hand on their shoulder, a smile on your face and a "hello" intended to show them that they too are an important person on this earth...if you wait till tomorrow...will that tomorrow come, for them, for you?
As I said, I am no great web designer...all I can do is what my heart tells me..that is all we can do. So hold out your hand today to someone you love, to someone you hate, and most importantly to someone you don't even know! Peace...