Connect to share and comment  Letter from London: Liverpool no
longer bears its cross alone  The Hillsborough soccer tragedy
was a major event in recent British history. This week’s
reaction to a two-year inquest into the incident shows why.
Hillsborough vigil 08 13 2012Enlarge People in Liverpool take
part in a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough
disaster after the disclosure of an independent report into the
incident. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)  LONDON, UK — What
happens when innocent people lose their lives because state
institutions fail? Do political leaders admit fault and
apologize? Not often.  But it happened this week, when Britain's
David Cameron apologized for the gross failures of his
predecessors for the second time since becoming prime minister.
That reflects the magnitude of the case in question in the
British psyche: the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, when 96
supporters of the Liverpool soccer club were crushed to death
during a match at the Hillsborough stadium in the nort