Wow are we getting PC around here. Not allowed to notice anything other than the central story --- the death of all those poor folks who also happened to be economically impoverished. If in the hundreds of such stories you also notice that the event touched someone from NY, and someone with star quality, and you talk about it --- oh my god! you are breaking the rules!
Get a grip, people. This story has local interest for New Yorkers and was published in a New York paper along with a multitude of other stories about the larger, sadder event.
And if we are supposed to follow a set of rules on what's ok to talk about after a tragedy, please list them here, in detail. Please share your version of PC with the rest of us. In detail. We're all dying to know.
Her story of survival is just as interesting as the one from the Washington Post reporter who was on an island in Sri Lanka. In many ways more harrowing.
Well said, thanks.
Don't encourage pinheads.(;>)
This young woman showed incredible guts and will to survive. If she were a Marine from Kentucky on vacation and experienced the same thing she'd be our new poster girl. The fact that she took advantage of the tools God gave her to profit in a society we created (who would walk away from half a million a year to have his picture taken?), added to the fact that she hangs her hat in NYC (the horror!) gets her nothing but disrespected here.
Very well said. It's disheartening to see so many freepers display outrage over the story.