My poor 11-year-old daughter is now crying because she's had to see yet another tribute on tv, between cartoons. She said, "If they want us to get over it, why do they keep playing it over & over & over again all day?"
I do feel for everyone, there's no question it's probably the greatest tragedy of our time; but the kid's got a point... it's difficult to move on and get back to normal when we're being inundated with images that bring back the raw horror of the day as if it just happened right now?
Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected (which is damned near the entire population of the non-fundamentalist-muslim world), and our sincere and heartfelt thanks go out to all of the heroes who rose to the challenge, and who're at this moment on duty defending us against people who hate us for the very things that make us great.
With any luck at all, by next year we'll be celebrating our victory over them; so while we're gathering to mourn our fallen brothers and sisters, we will also be doing a little dance and sending the animals responsible on a quick trip to an eternity in Hell where they belong.
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