Just saw this. A great loss to their loved ones who will now feel the void left behind by the smiles they will no longer see, the laughter they will no longer share, as well as being a loss to "our" shared community.
Though I did not know them, they were my brothers.
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a Clod be washed away by the Sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a Promontory were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne