Olympic silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan says she couldn’t just sit at home after learning that several members of the figure skating community had died in the devastating aircraft collision near Washington,

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night were just beginning their journeys to stardom.

They were returning home from a camp for young figure skaters identified as having promise.