Paul L Nelson

Paul L. Nelson was 24 years old and from Kansas City, Missouri. That is the small handful of facts that survive here, the bare spine of a story that deserves flesh and breath and memory. His gender was not provided, and with so much missing, that absence feels like part of the wound: a reminder that behind every name is a whole human life that can’t be reduced to a line in a record or a sentence someone half-remembers.

Whatever day it happened, it happened the way tragedies so often do� ...