In the Air of an Afternoon Almost Past

<p><em style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>These events foretold are of forty years ago. They were a surreal blur then and remain so. A fever dream that was tragically real. Even with the clarity of time there is only distance. And the need to understand. I suppose it is a long overdue long goodbye.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Grief is a great theme of our times and this is a memoir of grief in action.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>On the tempest-tossed afternoon of 9 July 1982 Pan Am flight 759 crashed into a suburb of New Orleans shortly after takeoff. Eight people on the ground and all 145 passengers died among them Peter Goers's parents Margaret and Brian Goers aged 50 and 52. Peter busy with his promising career as a director had not said goodbye.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Peter left for the US the next day summoned to identify the bodies. These are his impressions of a strange and tragic journey full of potent memory loss poignant candour wisdom and family redemption.</span></p>