Photo: Dong Yun Yoon arrives with his minister the Rev. Daniel Shin at the crash site where his wife, two daughters and mother-in-law were killed. APFrom The Wall Street Journal:
After a crash, the Marines set an example.
It is late in the morning one day last December.
A plane is in distress, it's lost one engine and now two and it's going down, and people on the ground hear the sound, look up, say, "That's going awful low," and whip out their cellphones. You could see the pictures they took later on the news.
It sounds like Chesley Sullenburger and US Airways Flight 1549, but that was five weeks later. This was the military jet that went down in San Diego; this was the story that ended badly.
Then this week it took a turn. And looked at a certain way, the San Diego story is every bit as big, and elements of it just as deserving of emulation, as Sully saving all souls when he put down in the Hudson.
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My Comment: A full and honest accounting of what happened on that terrible December day is what I always expected from the Marines. To do anything less will dishonor the uniform and the men and women who wear it.
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