Anyone can write a heart-wrenching piece about a 40-year married couple, who had been together since prom, that were killed together in a catastrophe.
Maybe fewer could tug at the heartstrings further by describing how they had just finished volunteering with wounded soldiers beforehand.
And perhaps only the bastard child of Nicholas Sparks and Michael Bay would throw in that one of them helped save America on 9/11 by ordering fighter jets into the air that morning.
But with just one headline about them being “inseparable” when they died in a completely crushed together DC Metro train car, all that work is undone.
Congratulations, CNN.
(Just in case they change it, here’s a screenshot.)