Two lights entered into the life of Rabbi Chaim Lispkier on Tuesday.

When little Jack Elliot ran to the front of the room to pin the badge on his father’s uniform, the crowd in the Fairwinds Alumni Center burst into applause.

Justice served is little consolation for Bill DeMott. The courts can’t raise Keri from the dead; prisons can’t lock away the pain that’s wormed its way into his heart, a pain that turns his soft voice even softer whenever he talks about his lost daughter.

Omar Mateen forced his way into history behind the barrel of a gun. His past, such as it was, has been washed away by the blood of his victims, the 49 innocents he gunned down at Pulse nightclub on the morning of June 12.

Its battlefields stretch across 1,500 acres, and its combatants are the plants and trees, the birds and bees, the bugs large and small that are constantly struggling for survival.

Knights football player Tristan Payton was integral in apprehending UCF student Jonathan Justin Hui, who was suspected of using his cellphone to tape underage girls in a bathroom at the CFE Arena.