#plane accident

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Recently have been on a binge of the Mayday: Air Crash Investigations/Air Disasters TV series. One episode stood out to me.

Mistaken Identity. The disaster of Iran Air Flight 655. An Iranian passenger plane that was mistakenly identified as a fighter jet by the US navy and shot down on 3 July 1988. Of course, there's far more to it than that.

The US navy vessel sent a helicopter to scout a vessel it had identified on radar. The vessel fired shots at their helicopter, so the helicopter retreated, and the navy vessel was deployed to respond with force. Had the US never initiated contact, the battle that would lead to a captain calling for the shootdown of the plane never would have occurred.

Iran Air Flight 655 was an Airbus A300 passenger jet with 290 people aboard.

I can't find their names anywhere.

The captain that called for the shootdown of the jet was later awarded. President Reagan expressed "regrets" for the "tragedy," but a formal apology was never issued.

Don't take my words out of context - 9/11 was absolutely a tragedy. But part of me has to wonder - why do we, as Americans, act as if the rest of the world must grieve with us, groveling at our damn feet, meanwhile we've done heinous acts like this, and expect them to be swiftly forgotten, swept under the rug, with a "I swear it was an accident, I swear, guys"?

I'm angry I was never told about Iran Air 655. I was a baby when 9/11 happened. I don't remember it at all. Yet I know about it. But when our military does something heinous, nobody speaks a word of it, or they dress it in such pretty words, you don't even realize how sickeningly awful it was.

I'm angry that many of my fellow Americans think people in other countries hate us because they're "bad people." They are people, like you and me, and they have every reason to despise us.

I am sorry, Iran Air 655.

I am sorry nobody ever said sorry. Regrets and money are not apologies. You deserved humanity, not "shut up" compensation.

The Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion lost our teacher, our friend, and our rabbi, Rabbi Aaron  Panken, Ph.D. in a tragic plane accident yesterday.

In the last drash that he gave to his community at graduation on May 3, he presented us with the most profounding words, words that I hope we can all take comfort in on this very difficult time in the Jewish world and in our global community.

“Our celebration comes, this year, amidst a particularly challenging and painful world, one that in many respects transcends anything I have seen in my lifetime. We now live in a world in which truth is distorted, basic institutions of American life like the press, the courts, the electoral system, the FBI, the beautiful mosaic of immigration that made this country what it is, the dignity and value of public leadership and civil service, egalitarianism and a woman’s right to choose, and so many others, are threatened in ways we simply could not have imagined a mere two years ago. We see countries long civilized reverting to policies of nationalism and tactics of scapegoating reminiscent of our darkest times. We labor under the challenges of privacy and the ability for noxious leaders to spread their message ever more broadly and more efficiently through warped use of social media, cynical and often violent supremacist protests, and through targeting innocent immigrants as vicious criminals. But here’s the thing: the Jewish people, and our religious friends of other faiths, have seen this before, and we have lived through it, and thrived and built again and again and again. We are a people of action and courage, of innovation and fearlessness, of adaptation and endless creativity.”

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