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Waiting For Everyman

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Mon Sep-12-11 01:15 AM
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34. How sanitized do we need the world to be for us?

I can imagine that it's hard for a 9/11 widow to watch footage of the Towers coming down. But I'm thinking, you know, I'm the widow of a 100% disabled Viet Nam vet, and every day of our 23-year marriage I lived the VN war with him. If I can watch coverage of VN, or VN movies, or coverage of any war for that matter (because any war brings it back to me just the same), then I think the 9/11 widows will manage too.

What about the families of those who died in the Locherbie bombing? or any terrorist attack? or any traumatic event that made the news? Is it really different? I don't see how.

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