Oseh mishpat yatom ve'almanah

Devarim 10:18
He brings justice to the orphan and widow, and loves the foreigner, granting him food and clothing.
Oseh mishpat yatom ve'almanah ve'ohev ger latet lo lechem vesimlah.

An article in the Jpost provides us with a brief glimpse into the lives of the six soldiers who persihed in a helicopter crash in Romania this week.

“Kisses to everyone,” Lt.-Col (res.) Avner Goldman, 48, wrote in a text message to his wife, Orit, hours before he was killed along with five other IAF airmen and a Romanian officer during a helicopter training flight in Romania on Monday.
...Goldman, a father of four, celebrated his birthday just before leaving for Romania last week. ...In Moshav Sharona near Tiberius, Duby Keshet spoke with reporters about his son, Maj. Yahel Keshet, 33, from Kibbutz Hatzerim, who was married and the father of two small children.
...Boxes were still stacked outside the home of Lt.-Col. Daniel Shipenbauer, 43, who moved to Moshav Kidron with his wife and three children just before leaving for Romania.
...Maj. Lior Shai, 28, from Tel Nof, was married with a four-month-old infant.
...St.-Sgt. Oren Cohen, 24, from Rehovot, followed his father into the air force..
...Lt. Nir Lakrif, 25, from Tel Nof, was married last year. His wife is four months pregnant.http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=182832

Recently I hear a lecture on Torahanytime.com given by Rabbi Wallerstein. He began the lecture by dedicating it to a forty-one year old woman who had passed away from cancer. She discovered that she had the disease at the age of twenty-six. A rabbi advised her to commit to performing a specific mitzvah and she took upon herself to collect money to help finance weddings of orphans in Israel. Before her death, she was instrumental in helping provide funds for over one hundred weddings. A rabbi who heard that the woman had passed away asked the brides to write letters about the woman's activities. The deceased was buried with more than one hundred letters from orphaned brides.
Who is going to supply testimony to our lives? We are not going to be buried with five dollars, but we can take with us the five dollar receipt for a donation to charity. We don't know how long we are destined to live - whether our lives will be cut short by a helicopter crash, a plane crash such as the one that happened today, and so on. So, let's make the most out of our lives and do mitzvot while we can. In a week where the parshat hashavua talks specifically about orphans, perhaps we can find out if the families of the fallen soldiers need financial help.
Incidentally, while listening to a shiur on Torahanytime.com, I noticed a message on the site stating that donations are critically low. Why not make a donation in the merit of the fallen soldiers?