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. Grief is a great theme of our times and this is a memoir of grief in action. On the tempest-tossed afternoon of 9 July 1982, Pan Am flight 759 crashed into...