Sorry Means Little

So the story has been preading about the 88 yearl old, former German pilot who shot down his favorite author during World War II.

“I am shocked and sorry,” the ex-Luftwaffe pilot said yesterday. “Who knows what other great books he would have gone on to write?”

Really? What about the other 27 pilots, maybe they could have cured cancer or lived to spend another day with their families. I wonder what children they would have gone on to father, or how many lives they would have touched. The fact that the victim was an author seems so arbitrary against a backdrop of 72 million people who lost their lives in that war. There’s no romance in it, if anything it’s an extremely selfish persective from a killer.