Request Reprint Send us your request to reprint copyrighted material. As you read this, the bodies of Rodney Adams, Dominick Ianozzi, and brothers Timothy and Daniel Renolds will have already been buried. If personally affected by such devastation, I know I would be at a profound loss for comfort and understanding. But I have great difficulty in accepting such tragedy as a master-planned arrangement. Supposing we are indeed powerless in this mortality game.
Bad things happen to good people because bad things happen, period.
As a result of the crash, Lellan, his kin and the Adams, Ianozzi and Renolds families are locked into lifetimes of sorrow and regret. My heart aches for all of them. From childhood on, I've been sorely aware of the fact that we humans are highly vulnerable creatures, subject to a multitude of variables, many of them awful. Call me a fatalist, a skeptic, a downer, but I feel that if there is a God, and I'd like to believe there is, He does not carry all the keys to the Kingdom. He does not sit on his majestic throne playing spin the whammy against us mortals.