The second story is particularly tragic:
The news came in a phone call Saturday at 1 a.m., but his brothers had been trying his cellphone for hours, all gathered at their mom’s house, unsure whether to worry or hope.
“Everybody please pray,” the oldest wrote on Facebook. Their brother had been so excited before this trip.
Michael Wogan, 22, was among the nine people killed when the pilot of a 1940s-model P-51 Mustang crashed into the crowd Friday at the Reno National Championship Air Races. His father, Bill Wogan, was with his son, and lost his right eye, some of the fingers on his right hand, suffered over 100 fractures to his face, and was in critical condition at a Reno hospital.
He was the third of four sons, and the number three meant a lot to this Phoenix area family: three wheelchairs, three big vans, three of the brothers with congenital muscular dystrophy. With those kinds of numbers, brothers are what you need.
Just terrible.
In the end, the insurance companies are going to call the shots as to whether this event, the ONLY one of its kind in the world, will be allowed to continue.
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