Their names are etched in to our collective memories.
Cheapside. James Watt Street. Ibrox. Stockline. And, barely a year ago, Clutha.
Such disasters will not be forgotten. And nor will the horror of George Square.
Soon we will know who died and who was maimed when - with cruel absurdity - a bin lorry knocked them over in a part of Glasgow we all think of as our own.
We will, we hope, remember those names, the Christmas shoppers and commuters chance put in the path of that truck.
But we will also think of that instant of dread we all felt when we heard of yesterday's accident. "Where are the people I love the most?" we almost all asked ourselves. "Are they safe?" For some, yesterday, the answer was "No".
Ministers, political and religious, talk of thoughts and prayers being with such families, with those who yesterday so pointlessly and randomly lost loved ones.
These same voices will also remind us that we are often at our best in such tragedies, as Glasgow was, for example, when that helicopter fell on the Clutha Bar last year, killing 10.
Such sentiments stand repetition. This city's solidarity is as real as its sorrow. Glasgow has stood together many times on George Square. Now we can stand together for George Square.
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