BOB Schilt has visited his son’s grave every day for the past two years.

He makes the journey to the peaceful Clayton Natural Burial Ground to remember 23-year-old Jacob, one of the 11 men killed in the Shoreham Airshow crash on August 22, 2015.

Football-mad Jacob was on his way to a Worthing United match in the car with his friend and team goalkeeper Matthew Grimstone, also 23, when they both died in the Shoreham Airshow disaster.

Speaking to The Argus this week Jacob’s mother Caroline Schilt, 57, said: “It doesn’t feel like two years. Day to day we’re much the same as we’ve been all along. We think of Jacob every day.

“Visiting Jacob every day, it brings home the reality of it. Because part of you still doesn’t believe what’s happened.”

Retired teacher Mr Schilt, 63, said: “It’s certainly something that strikes me, there is the unreality still. We’re still living in a strange world. It’s surreal, still, two years later.”

The pair said there is still that split second moment where they momentarily forget what has happened.

Mrs Schilt said: “And then you remember. And it’s like a sinking feeling, which we had in the beginning. Just for a second. When you wake up there is a split second and then you think.”

Bob said: “It’s a strong sense of unreality and all the other things that go with that. Sometimes you’re angry, sometimes you’re just sad.”

Jacob’s grave is near Matthew’s and the parents often see each other there.

Mrs Schilt, the head of drama at Brighton and Hove High School, said: “We arrange to meet them regularly and that really helps.

“We’re forging a closer and closer bond with them, it’s like a support network.”

They’ve also grown closer to the football club. She said: “We feel they’re there permanently for us, that they’re not going to drop us in a few years, they’ve made us vice-presidents of the club.

“We really feel there’s a community. It affected Worthing United, the club and the players and the chairman, it’s affected them hugely. I think at the beginning because we’re so caught up in our own tragedy, we didn’t think about the wider effect in a way and it’s really coming home to us now that it’s affected other people personally as well. And the Albion are still looking after us as well.”

When framed football shirts were hung in the north stand, the couple visited anonymously just to hear what people were saying.

Mrs Schilt said: “They had just come of their own volition to look at it and read the plaque and comment. It makes you feel that you are part of this huge community that cares.”

Sue and Phil Grimstone, also of Brighton, said: “We remain devastated at the loss of our beautiful, funny, bright, kind and gentle son.”

The families are two of 11 still left devastated by the lost of their loved ones.

The other victims were wedding chauffeur Maurice Abrahams, 76, of Woodingdean; retired engineer James Graham Mallinson, 72, of Newick; window cleaner Mark Trussler, 54, of Worthing; cycling friends Dylan Archer, 42, of Brighton, and Richard Smith, 26, of Hove; NHS manager Tony Brightwell, 53, also of Hove; grandfather Mark Reeves, 53, of Seaford; personal trainer Matt Jones, 24; and Daniele Polito, 23, both of Worthing.

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