I find this story incredibly upsetting. Hopes fade for Italy quake children.
Logically, it should be no more upsetting than "thousands of people, including adults, die in Asian/South American earthquake" or "200 holiday makers, including a score of Brits die in bomb blast" at night club. But somehow it is. Perhaps partly because I have an especial fondness for Italy. And perhaps because it is unbearable to think
the children may have been too young to know how to protect themselves under their desks
A few days ago a post by Dave inspired a comment about Aberfan. That happened over a year before I was born, but, somehow, it was an event that somehow, I knew about as I grew up. I don't recall when I first learnt about. I suspect it coloured the ambience of the early to mid Seventies, in the way that, say, Hillsborough, is still a current topic today.
What binds so many of these things together, though, is the avoidability of such losses.
