Many apologies for perpetuating this thread, but I had to respond
to this one, even if my response is as inane as its parent.
Quoting Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>:
> Someone pulled up next the Fred P. Murrah (spelling) with a Van,
> Deisel fuel, and fertilizer.
_Alfred_ P. Murrah
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 _at_#$! 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 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.
OK, I'll shut up now.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss_at_ou.edu
Received on Mon May 07 2001 - 01:15:04 BST