A lady on Fox says “The Nation mourns”. Most of us do, but it’s nothing like the mourning that the families of these innocent people must now go through.
God bless them all. I can barely imagine the horror and pain.
I called my friend who gose to Virginia Teach and she is safe (:
Another professor was killed, Jamie Bishop, in the German classroom:
“He didn’t know the exact location, so he visited a few classrooms and lined up all students against a wall. The worst massacre took place at 9:50 am in room 200 where the students were learning German 2105. He shot them one by one; yes, the professor, Jamie Bishop who was a son of science-fiction writer Michael Bishop, died first.”
There must be a fine line to how you expand this feeling beyond those effected.
I was moved by the President who spoke of how OUR hearts go out to those who lost friends and loved ones, but somewhat repulsed by people who said “the nation suffered a tragedy”.
This wasn’t a national tragedy. It wasn’t my loss. Sure, I was sad, and hurt, and maybe angry, but the event belongs to those who lived through it or died from it. Sometimes I think we publicise stuff like this so much that we take away from the true victims their “victimhood”.
I felt that way with the Rutgers team. By the time they had their press conference to discuss how mean words said about them effected them, a lot of people were saying things like “shut up already”, or “what victims”, because Sharpton and Jackson had already “stolen” their victimhood for all black people, and Imus was even making himself out to be the victim.
Maybe if you are suffering a loss like this, it helps to know other people “feel your pain”, but frankly every time I’ve been around people who had a loss, the last thing they seemed to want to hear was how others “understood”, or “felt”, their loss.