Pieces of red plastic and unidentifiable metal scraps lie next to a bunch of flowers, candles and a giant teddy bear.

Here, outside the Fleetwood Auto building on Middlefield Street in Middletown, two young men lost their lives Saturday night.

Those grieving Ryan Weckesser and Nathan Bushnell have covered the entire wall of the building Nathan's Ford Mustang crashed into with memories and tributes, photos, poems, cards and balloons.

As I stopped at the site Wednesday evening, an older couple was just leaving in a gray sedan. While some drivers were flying by down Middlefield Street, most passers-by slowed down significantly to look at the memories left behind by those who cared deeply about the victims.

Some drivers bowed their heads while passing, others just turned to look at this wall of grief.

A woman and two girls came walking up the road, the girls carrying one tulip each. As the girls carefully placed the tulips near the candles, the woman leaned forward to read the notes posted on a pole and looked at some photographs of Ryan and Nathan with their friends.

We've written about many car crashes in the past few months - all of them very tragic. But this one, for some reason, is different. It's like the entire community knew the victims in this crash, and those who didn't are still sharing the pain.

I sat there in my car - observing from a distance - and wondered how long it will take for these brothers, sisters, friends and parents to feel like things have gone "back to normal."

I bet it never will.