Detroit Free Press columnist Susan Ager in a column today about the Air France crash in Toronto:


We’ll learn soon enough exactly why that big jet skidded off Runway
24L. We’ll hear every detail about how its human load was saved.


But no accounting will be made of the shoes and shaving kits and
sentimental treasures that were lost, or the echoes they left behind.

Hey, the passengers are alive! Who cares about toothpaste?