Tim,
thanks for your condolences. For gods sake they reduced the # of losses to 270 which could not be contacted since Tuesday. But every dead is too much in such a case. It was not easy for me to stay calm, belive me, but some of those "hotheads"
posts need a comment form my point of view. We started a war in 1939 without thinking about the consequences and some of us (war generation) still suffer (pysically and psycically) from those consequences that hit us (for good reason) between 1942 and 45. You see, the "old huns" are quite tame now (maybe too tame in some cases).
Our friends were from the US and from Germany, most of them we knew for some 10 - 20 years. So it is not easy to imagine that they are not with us anymore.
regards
Steffen