My thoughts today are with the families of the eight victims, who learned four years ago today that they had lost their loved ones. It’s easy to think of the mother of Frank (Bam Bam) Salerno, who told court in her victim impact statement that she finds some solace in words of Tennyson that she studied as a schoolgirl:
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins of will,
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood:
That nothing walks with aimless feet:
That not one life shall be destroy’d,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete…