Friday 22 August 2014

MH 17 - our people come home

Malaysians woke up this morning to the National Flag being hoisted at half-mast  to honour the victims of the MH 17 crash, which killed all 298 persons on board, including 43 Malaysians on July 17.    
 

What must have been an agonizing wait for the next-of-kin of 20 of the 43 Malaysian victims came to an end with the arrival of their remains, 37 days after the downing of MH 17, that shocked us all, especially so close following the tragic disappearance of MH 370 hardly 4 months before on 8 March 2014.  

To whoever shot down the plane, do you know how many lives are destroyed foreever?  You not only killed 298 persons but brought so much grief to all those who love them, all those who depend on them and all those who are supposed to grow up with them and spend the future with them.  



Please read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/
The scene along the busy Federal Highway at 10.55 am today when all Malaysians,
including motorists, observed 1 minute of silence for the victims of MH17  
Into the winter's gray delight,
Into the summer's golden dream,
Holy and high and impartial,
Death, the mother of Life,
Mingles all men for ever.
~William Ernest Henley, "XIV: Ave, Caesar!", In Hospital

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