Liz Sisson died when she was 16 in a nighttime single car crash that two of her friends walked away from. Eddie Stanton died when he was 28 in a private airplane crash because the plane was overweighted and didn’t make it over the trees at the end of the runway. Several of his fellow passengers walked away from that scene. Eddie was a childhood friend of mine in Itta Bena, Mississippi. Liz was the daughter of members of my congregation in Amory, Mississippi. And I grieve their loss. All of us who have survived this long, to this point, carry with us our own private Wailing Wall at which we mourn and commemorate the deaths of those who died too soon, doing our part in bearing witness to their life and the loss their death had on us, carrying their memory with us throughout our life, doing our part in not forgetting them, as they would have not forgotten us had we not been among those who walked away.
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