April 10th 2010. A day meant for commemeration. A day for remembrance. The 70th anniversary of the Katyn tragedies.
Instead, Poland is in mourning another tragedy.
The Polish President and his wife, have been tragically killed in an aeroplane catastrophe near the Smolensk Airport.
What has occurred is beyond anyone's imagination. What happened this morning is one of the biggest tragedies of the 21st Century that a nation could experience.
As the TVN broadcasters read out the names, one by one, they claim that there were 88 individuals on board, though the number could be lower or higher. Many of them important parliamentary and religious figures in Poland.
The loss experienced is beyond words, beyond understanding, unimaginable, unbelievable.
How could this tragedy have occurred?
Why?
Questions that may not be answered to anyone's satisfaction.
Faulty aeroplane. Bad weather. Something else.
The irony in it.
70 years ago Poles were killed in Katyn. Today, 70 years after, another catastrophe has hit Poland.
An investigation will take place. But whatever they find, it will not bring back the lives of those lost. Condolences and sympathies to the entire nation.
When things like this occur, it forces us to reflect. To wonder about what is life about. How insignificant the things we worry about are. We don't know what tomorrow brings. Yesterday shouldn't matter, tomorrow doesn't exist, and we should focus on the present because really it's a present to have every extra day. Accidents happen, we cannot predict them. Things happen that are out of our control.
The magnitude of this tragedy, the repercussions on the nation. What will happen next?
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