My response was to be with people I care about and love, and I needed support,” said Nancy Kerrigan. “That’s why I’m here. It’s a shock.”

For The Skating Club of Boston, which lost six members of its community Wednesday night in the American Airlines plane crash near Washington, D.C., the tragedy is all too familiar. Sixty-four years ago,

The club has been the standard-bearer for American figure skating for more than a century. On Thursday, it became the epicenter of tragedy.