7 May
2001
7 May
'01
1:41 a.m.
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
I really wish everyone would just forget about that
incident. I live
in Oklahoma, and to this day the sentimentalizing just will not stop.
It's why I stopped watching the local news media except for when the
@#$! sirens are blowing. No, I don't want to donate money to build
some useless memorial. No, I don't want to go see the useless
memorial. No, I don't want to read this book or that book about it.
No, I don't want to observe 168 seconds of silence. People die; get
over it.
I think this is being a bit callous, Jeff. It's hard to forget tragedy on
this magnitude. That's why we still see shows on TV about World Wars I &
II, the Holocaust, the Titanic, etc.
I think the funniest thing about the whole ordeal was
when, in the
early news coverage, the reporters were saying that the, um,
'authorities' suspected two middle-eastern men were to blame. I don't
want to know how our middle-eastern community felt about our
trigger-happy idiot reporters when they discovered it was just some
fellow hicks with a truck full of farm products.
It was the first time I was ever compelled enough to bother sending mail
to <president(a)whitehouse.gov>ov>.
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