A beautiful young Dutch couple, who seemed to have their lives ahead of them…
…lie murdered somewhere in Eastern Ukraine.
And their family wants them back, along with the families of all the other Flight 17 victims:
“No words can describe it,” Fredriksz-Hoogzand [the mother of one of the victims] told AP. “Bodies are just lying there for three days in the hot sun. There are people who have this on their conscience. There are families who can never hold the body of a child or a mother.”
She said she sent [her son] Bryce and [his girlfriend] Daisy on vacation to Bali to get over the grief of Daisy’s mother dying two and a half months ago.
“It’s a tragedy on top of a tragedy,” she said.
Asked Sunday night what delay was acceptable in returning bodies to their families, Prime Minister Mark Rutte replied: “Zero. Nothing is acceptable. All this should be done two days ago. But we are working as hard as possible to ensure a quick repatriation.”
Two photos of Bryce Fredriksz-Hoogzand and his girlfriend Daisy Oehlers appear at the link. I haven’t reproduced their photos here because they are too heartbreaking. And those are just two victims of the hundreds that could be written about, each with their own poignant story.
The families are suffering terribly. But perhaps they could be considered fortunate compared to the families of the passengers of Malaysia Flight 370. The families of Malaysia Flight 17 will almost certainly some day get to reclaim the bodies of the loved ones. And in the meantime they know approximately where they are, and even what happened to them, although it’s almost impossible to understand why. Perhaps there is no why.
But they know the when and the where, and some of the details of the how and the who, and soon they will know even more. For the passengers on Malaysia Flight 370, all their families know is the day of their disappearance, a “last-heard-from” location, and a flight manifest.
[NOTE: On second thought, maybe the Flight 17 families don’t know where the victims’ bodies are any more. Are all the victims’ bodies on these refrigerated trains, or just some? And where are the trains actually going?]
When packed, sealed, guarded trains start moving around the European landscape it’s never a good thing.
“A Ukrainian train engineer told The Associated Press that a power outage had hit the rail cars’ refrigeration system for several hours overnight but the power was back up Monday.”
Obama gave a speech today so this will get sorted out in no time.
On a more serious note, FIFA should take the 2018 World Cup and give it to The Netherlands.
The Euros will get over this. Just give them a few weeks to lapse back into their supine, passive postures.
But they must pressure Israel; Israel’s self-defense is pissing off all their muslims.
you have to break a few eggs to have a revolution tovarish
I suggest you steel yourself, neo-neocon. These 295 bodies are just the start.
The only question is, how many more dead will there be before this administration is over?
What did the WWII women do? How did they cope?
the russian are cold..
perhaps throwing another jew or christian on the pyre will wam them up? (reference ot an old anti-nazi joke)
What did the WWII women do? How did they cope?
they became feminists and joined the enemies ranks
I realize this may see uncharitable or unkind , but this struck me.
‘Send my children home’
My dad was 17 when he joined the Coast Guard during WWII. I was 24 when I signed the dotted line and joined the Navy.
We weren’t children. And if anybody ultimately does something about this, those on the tippy point of the spear, they’re likely to be younger than these two.
And they’re not children.