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
> _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 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_at_whitehouse.gov>.
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