[patriciaruth]

Those who have lost someone very dear in the service of our country maybe can understand my reaction. I guess those that haven't suffered this loss can't.

Here is my tribute for our war and service dead, which has been on my profile page for the last few years.

Before Grief

While I sit the light fails, then fades
Into evening, shade upon shades
Till the room is dusk, then dark
While I sit.

Sweet life, your bitter edge has come
And I am loath to move.
Time crystallized will shatter
With a breath, and only left
Will be to draw the sheet and weep
For memory's shards.

Here in the eternal moment
I hold them whole, unmarred.
There is no loss, only the last,
A savored, living link
With the oh, so cherished past.

Fail light; night has come
So black I cannot see the bed.
Fail light, ....go
And leave me with my dead.

c.Patricia Ruth, 1973

[Victoria Delsoul]

Yes, I remember your poem. Thanks so much for posting it.

[rewrite]

Each of us have our own demons we've GOT to deal with in this life.

Mine: I was diagnosed in 1979 with Wilson's Disease after the copper level accumulated in my body COMPLETLY destroyed my central nervous system. Took 2 years of therapy to get me back to semi-normal functioning status.

5/8/1986 My 23 yr old brother died from liver failure associated with Wilson's Disease.


1/6/2002 I underwent a liver transplant( extremely successful) because my liver had shut down. I was a few hours away from being buried beside my brother.


I realize it's apples and oranges we're talking about in terms of tragedy. The fact remains ....none of us can say we've suffered tragedy that no one else can understand because no one else has has walked in our shoes. Truth is , people have a hard enough time walking in their own shoes to worry about walking in my shoes or your shoes or anybody else's. How we deal with our problems in life is directly related to the quality of life we lead. I choose to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

[easonc52]

I guess those that haven't suffered this loss can't.

Your tribute to the lost is moving.

I must say that even though I live in Utah, when 9/11 happened, I weeped buckets in the following weeks.

A friend from work instant messaged me that a plane had hit a tower, I thought he was joking, and I told him so. He assured me it was real, and to turn on the TV. I was devastated.

Based on a portion of your original post:

I was too upset to watch the "tribute" which came after the filthy trash.

I'm sorry you were so upset you couldn't watch the tribute.

I wish who's in charge of programming would have dedicated at least an entire hour or more to the tribute, instead of making it a small portion of someone's show.

I hope enough of us who were able to see it, will express to FOX via email etc., exactly what I've just related.

Thank you for posting your tribute.

[sauropod]

I have suffered that kind of loss, PR.

[FreeReign]

Those who have lost someone very dear in the service of our country maybe can understand my reaction. I guess those that haven't suffered this loss can't. Here is my tribute for our war and service dead, which has been on my profile page for the last few years.

I understand your reaction and I thought your poem was great.

Anyway, Chris Wallace's 10 minutes is a puny amount of time spent with all that we have accomplished and with all the lives that have been sacrificed.

Contrast that with the amount of time Wallace spent covering what six pathetic prison guards did to a bunch of pathetic prisoners.

And some Freepers are so o'er joyed with 10 minutes -- Whopeee!