A black mark for Metro

We mourn for nine Washingtonians who perished Monday in a crash of Metro cars. We are learning that the crash should not have happened. We are finding out that our public officials let us down.

Names of riders killed in the wreck were still being made public as I pondered the tragedy and tried to make some sense of it. There were Maj. Gen. David Wherley and his wife, Ann; there was Dennis Hawkins, who worked at a D.C. elementary school; and LaVonda King, who was about to open her own salon. And too many others.