According to the “Leicester Mercury” the helicopter crash killing the chairman of their football club and four other people is “Leicester’s darkest day”.
This, I presume, excludes the losses during the bombing of Leicester in November 1940, when more than 100 citizens were killed?
By all means mourn the loss, but let us not get carried away and forget the past.
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Agree with you.
History is forgotten so quickly these days.
This happens in all things. Accidents like this, sport etc.
It’s always the now.