Like others, I am grieving the death of soldiers and civilians that are still being recovered from the cold currents of the Potomac River near our nation’s capital.

The investigations are underway, and undoubtedly some will politicize the event for their side. If we can trust what we are being told, American athletes were aboard the jet, talented skaters and their coaches, and scores of other passengers.

And it sounds like at least three of my fellow soldiers died, too, the ones aboard the UH-60 (Black Hawk).

When I sit and think about it, sundry Scriptures come to mind, but perhaps none as viscerally as Psalm 90. The twelfth verse reads like this: “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12, ESV).