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Date Posted: 09:31:16 03/11/02 Mon
Author: Donk
Author Host/IP: 151.indianapolis-24rh16rt.in.dial-access.att.net / 12.85.15.151
Subject: Touchy Subject..... Better left unsaid?

I'm posting this here because I wonder if I'm all alone in the idea that it might not be a good thing to constantly revisit 9-11, to be re-exposed to the sorrows of others and to give Bush another chance to politicize the event. Okay, that last is a cheap shot, but I'm sure he would understand.

In my life, I've never known it to be a good thing to remain fixed on a bad event. In my experience, these things are willing to become memories if we let them. As ej said once, these events should not shape our lives and our futures. We can't help except be effected, but we don't have to be defined by them.

Bad experiences are a part of life and we are surely effected by them and we surely learn something from them, but if we keep revisiting them, can we ever really move on? Is it better to teach children to deal with bad events; to put them into perspective or should we teach them that we are unwilling to move past them?

I just don't know. Too much sensitivity is destructive and can be paralyzing for some people. I just wonder if we're pushing too much sensitivity. I wonder at all the special fanfare for a few KIAs when the body boxes used to be shipped back from SE Asia like so much cargo, stacked in hangars awaiting shipment. Can we personalize everything to the point that we will be unable to do the hard things?

And, did we ever thank the rest of the world for its support and condolences? Did we ever thank Newfoundland for helping those people stranded there? Why do I doubt we ever did. I guess because they don't vote.

As I type this, Bush is strutting and fretting his hour -- as usual, proclaiming all this determination when I haven't heard any challenges. The guy talks to his imagination, a consumate politician!

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Re: Touchy Subject..... Better left unsaid? -- Grumpy�, 17:26:35 03/11/02 Mon
Re: Touchy Subject..... Better left unsaid? -- Southern Gent, 22:00:51 03/11/02 Mon
- For sure, SG.... -- Donk, 15:18:17 03/12/02 Tue
- Re: Touchy Subject..... Better left unsaid? -- Interested Awareness, 16:42:40 03/12/02 Tue