It seems inappropriate to write something funny or flippant today. The Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan is what’s on everyone’s mind and in our hearts.
Fifteen people killed – eleven of them under 21 years old – and 14 other young men under 21 whose lives are now on hold. The road to recovery will be long and their lives forever changed.
It’s always sad when we lose a young person no matter the reason but losing eleven young people in one moment is heart wrenching. We are mourning the lives lost but also the lives of the people they may have touched or created if they had had the chance to live to 50 years old.
Among these young men, there may have been another Wayne Gretzky or Sidney Crosby – set to inspire millions of kids.
Some may have gotten hockey scholarships that allowed them to study and become great doctors or scientists. Who knows what contributions they would have made.
Some may have taken their love of the game into coaching, influencing another generation the same way that their coaches did. The coaches that were, sadly, also lost in the crash.
Many would have married and had children that we will now never meet.
Big brothers won’t be there for their little sisters first heartbreak.
Uncles won’t get to babysit their nieces and nephews.
Sons won’t get to toast their parents’s 50th wedding anniversary . . . or their own.
The loss of young lives alter the future because the impact of their potential will never be realized. And this just adds weight to the pain.
So today we mourn. We mourn the loss of these young men and all of the young people that never got to see 50.
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