Tornados and other tragedies: the accidental death of young people

Yesterday I wrote about those who purposely place children?s lives in jeopardy in war. But children and young people also die accidently, and not only in war. Witness the twin tragedies two schools have just endured. This morning a bus carrying the baseball team from Mennonite-affiliated Bluffton University in Ohio fell off a bridge , killing four students as well as the bus driver and his wife. And yesterday in Enterprise, Alabama, the high school roof was torn off in a direct hit by a tornado , killing eight students. The accidental deaths of young people are always tragic, but they usually occur in a seemingly random fashion?a family is hit here, a family is hit there. But with the bus crash of a college team and the collapse of a school buidling, each institution must deal with an especially heartrending group event: the death of a number of young people at one time in a single community. And if there are opportunities for extra support because nearly everyone i...