Absolutely,Jerry it is strange how events in people's lives can alter the course of their destiny so greatly...
I reckon the crash was a good thing, because if it had not happened,you would almost certainly not be on this forum :-).
It reminds me of a nice old chap who was the caretaker at my daughter's dancing school.
He became engaged to his sweetheart two days before leaving for the far east, a tank mechanic no less.He worked in horrible conditions on Grant tanks with aero engines and later on Sherman tanks with Detroit diesel engines. In the heat of one particular battle his entire company was reported as missing, presumed dead. Due to communications problems their safe recovery ( after 6 months! ), was not relayed back to Britain and none of his letters reached their destination...
Upon return home 3 years later he was sickened to find that his fiancee was married with a child. She was very much in love with her husband and very shocked to see a ghost... everyone thought he was dead!
He met a wonderful lady, fell in love and married. Sadly they could not start a family as she turned out to be infertile.
He told me with tears in his eyes that he loved his wife more than anything but he often lamented losing his fiancee and the chance of a child.
War is cruel in all ways...
This man was in his eighties and still cries.