Friday, July 18, 2014

July 18, 2014.

The Innocent Lives of Flight 17: Parents, Children, Lovers, Friends

"Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?"

AMSTERDAM----Cor Schilder woke early Tuesday to help his longtime girlfriend, Neeltje Tol, open her flower shop one last day before the couple headed to Bali.

"I don’t know. The spirit of Man."

Ms. Tol asked the shopkeeper next door to collect the mail while she was away, and then left a note on her store window. "Postman, please deliver the mail next door to Radio Jump we are on holiday." (Follow the latest updates on the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine.)

"And do you consider yourself a man?"

Mr. Schilder, who worked at a landfill and played drums in a band, posted on Facebook FB +3.03%  a photograph he took Thursday of the Boeing BA +1.40%  777 that was Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU -11.11%  Flight 17. "Should it disappear," he wrote, tongue-in-cheek, "this is what it looked like." Then he and Ms. Tol boarded.

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