The ways that people have been reacting to the death of Osama Bin Laden….What are we teaching our children? And what are we saying about ourselves?I have only questions here. No answers. Each person will have to come up with their own.
Even though there was a part of me that understood it, especially the
human-ness of it, and especially, when it was the reaction of those whose lives were more immediately and personally affected by both the life and death of Osama Bin Laden, there very definitely was/ is another part of me that has
winced, internally, every time I've come across a news video, photograph or article depicting someone cheering, toasting, celebrating or somehow or another, exploiting Osama Bin Laden's death. I just ran across this article which raises some of the same questions that I've had.
Is It Wrong To Celebrate Bin Laden's Death?And then, there are these:
Marketers Jump into Osama Bin Laden Death BizBin Laden Merchandise Takes OffEDIT: http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/05/debate-is-it-appropriate-to-celebrate-osama-bin-ladens-death.html
Maybe because of my posting here in the first place, it won’t come as a giant surprise that of the columnists cited at the link, above, I related to the last two paragraphs of Washington Post’s Petula Dvorak's opinion piece and to all of Salon’s David Sirota’s comments the most. That doesn’t mean I’m right. It’s merely how I feel.
Of course, this is coming from someone who, as a kid, got ticked off at one of her friends who went out of his way, for no reason, to step on a worm on a wet sidewalk as we were walking one morning to school.
