9 years ago today i lost a friend. it was summer, i was up late channel surfing when i saw a story on the news that a plane had exploded off the coast of new york.
it was twa flight 800 and my friend monica cox was on it. she and a group of people from the school in mountoursville where she had moved were on their way to france.
she was one of the kindest people i had ever known and her life was cut tragically short.
tonight i play suede's "the next life" for her.
sleep well monica, you're missed and never forgotten.
flight 800 passenger list
Monica Cox, 16, who grew up in York, Pa., had moved to Montoursville at the beginning of the last school year. Monica, who was going into 11th grade, was an excellent French and Spanish language student who school officials said was concerned with social and environmental issues. She liked to write poetry and was an accomplished softball player and bowler. Monica was a member of the French Club.
it was twa flight 800 and my friend monica cox was on it. she and a group of people from the school in mountoursville where she had moved were on their way to france.
she was one of the kindest people i had ever known and her life was cut tragically short.
tonight i play suede's "the next life" for her.
sleep well monica, you're missed and never forgotten.
flight 800 passenger list
Monica Cox, 16, who grew up in York, Pa., had moved to Montoursville at the beginning of the last school year. Monica, who was going into 11th grade, was an excellent French and Spanish language student who school officials said was concerned with social and environmental issues. She liked to write poetry and was an accomplished softball player and bowler. Monica was a member of the French Club.
i don't know what's worse, seeing something like that on the news, or discovering it well after the fact, and having guilt that you missed it all.