Regarding Osama Bin Laden

[ontogenesis]

I am glad a horrible man has been stopped... I remember watching the second plane crash into the tower live (I had arrived at my student job at LSU, and the TV had been turned on). It was nationally psychologically-scarring incident, and a wake-up call similar to Hurricane Katrina several years later. We realized that America isn't invincible

Comments

[harumi]

Just commenting to say that I totally understand your sentiment, and completely agree with it. I don't have that feeling of revenge or satisfaction. Just sadness. It seems like such a sacrifice just to take one man's life, and we as a nation lost far too much in the meantime.

[mikkeneko]

I didn't really feel anything either way, just a sort of "Oh... huh," and then "Good."

[hiza_chan]

Everything you just said, jesus. So many people at my work place are laughing about it and cheering and just. I went to the doctor's the other day, and the tv in the waiting room was broadcasting footage of the student's cheering and just. It physically makes me sick.

I was in middle school when it happened, too. In art class- I'd gone to the bathroom and when walking back down the hall I passed a room that was showing the footage. So yeah, sure, it scarred our innocence. Whatever. One of my best friends told me that we were all going to die in a week and I was terrified. But I still think the celebrations are disgusting.

He was a terrible man and it's better for everyone now that he's gone. But to this level? It's my classmates watching Saddam's death and giggling about it all over again. It makes me ill.

[februaryfour]

A guy came into the bank and asked us how the public was reacting. O_o I blinked, and said, "What, the Osama thing?" He nodded, and I shrugged. "We're a bank. I guess people don't really talk about that while they're in the bank. I've heard some people discussing it it outside, but here..." I shrugged, as did all my co-workers in earshot.

It's great that one of the most wanted men in the world has finally been brought down. But... doesn't life just go on now, except with more relief?

[moothril]

I saw this the other day and have been thinking about it-don't have time to respond now but I'll definitely come back to it. I'll just say, the reaction at LSU has been especially interesting! We've made national news over it twice, hahahahaa!