“Count me out. There’s something fraudulent about this eagerness to latch onto the grief of others and embrace the idea that we, too, have been victimized”
This is so true.
People will quickly go back to their lives. Every now and then they will pause and reflect on the tragedy, but it won’t really change how they go about everyday business.
The parents of the dead don’t have this luxury.
Right now they are holding on for dear life and wondering how they’re going to make through the next hour.
They don’t want to consider a world without their child in it.
They don’t want to live their life without this beam of light on it.
There is no getting back to “normal” for them.
Eventually they will establish a new “normal” where they learn to function alongside their grief, but that process can take month, even years.
No...we are not all “Hokies”.
sheesh...make that “months”.
certainly it takes longer than a month