QuickQuotes: Voices from the Swissair tragedy
HALIFAX — “Anyone who was there was involved, even with little things. We were supposed to go down to our wharfs every day and look hard to see if we saw anything … and there was a sense of a kind of mysterious grief because of course we didn’t know any of these people, but there they were dying on our doorsteps in a particularly awful way.”
“Meeting the loved ones and families of those who died — they made the people who died real. Before that, we had this strange feeling of grief, but we didn’t know who we were grieving for. But as we met people it made it more real and in the process we met so many people … and wonderful relationships grew up in many, many ways. It became a valuable experience, something that taught you things about the human race you hadn’t thought about before.”
– Budge Wilson, author of “After Swissair,” who lived in Northwest Cove, N.S., near the crash site.
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