I'm glad my parents were kind and caring enough to do so for me. I would hope that other parents would do the same.
I mentioned my wife was exposed to the horrors of war early on. Her mom would have loved to shield her, but there was no choice and she was two months premature at the beginning of the horrors. So she was exposed to the raw uncoated truth of that evil throughout her tender years when we protective parents would love to block it all. Yes, there was an effect. She can see keenly through sugar coated wrappings and perceive the evil that is covered up and does it very well. What about trauma and shock and nightmares? Nope, not there. Would it have helped if the occupying enemy dressed the dead bodies in nice clothes and made them look peaceful? Nope.
Back to 9/11, they did all that early in the morning when kids could see, and people could see the horrors of that atrocity anywhere they saw a tv. The MSM and those who wish to favor the terrorists want us not to see those images. They want us to spread the honey. Me, I see the honey useful as attracting the bad guys and including a big dose of fire ants.
The one who responded to my earlier post got the zot, but said I saw things in black and white. So I better add so nobody thinks I am a right wing radical crazy zealot, that we were at those demonstrations with our horrible image posters on behalf of our mentor of the day, Father Paul Marx, founder of Human Life International and dubbed by the Pope as Apostle of Life. We are both very conservative Catholics much due to his examples.
When I was young, I tried to protect my little brother from seeing any evil, did my best to keep him naive. Now I see it wrong and would not repeat that. Remember we are showing the horror done by the bad guys and we are keeping them from hiding it. They want us to hide their atrocities, they want to cover the bitter with honey. We abet them when we cover our kids with the honey. And, as parents, we cannot sell our kids short. They know what that honey is and they know they are being shielded. Maybe that is not the best lesson.