The Hysteria in Tucson
Is, I believe - about over. It has been, over the last week or so, much like being inside a locked plastic closed with the air pressure blowing ping pong balls all around you, in every which direction, willy-nilly, so fast, you can't keep up with it.
The community is reaction much the same Oklahoma did after the Murrah Building dropped into the street and McVeigh paid for it with his life. I was there during that time with my late wife and we saw the fence, and the outpouring of unrestrained sympathy, the outcrying of fury an dpain, the silent screams into the air, the dead children, mothers, and sons, fathers and hopes for the future, all snatched away by a lunatic who was dead sure of his super-patriotic fervor was hell-bent on proving his point, civilian casualties be damned.
We will always have wars, the Bible says, starving people, poverty, insanity and the downtrodden. It is up to us to shovel back against the tide and stop bitching against each other in the process.
Grab a shovel and pitch in. My grandfather said it best when, during the great depression his oil company was nose diving under. He told me when you're bailing out your own sinking boat and you bump into someone behing you shoveling out water, too - that is probably the only true friend you'll ever have.
We should all shut up and shovel.
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The community is reaction much the same Oklahoma did after the Murrah Building dropped into the street and McVeigh paid for it with his life. I was there during that time with my late wife and we saw the fence, and the outpouring of unrestrained sympathy, the outcrying of fury an dpain, the silent screams into the air, the dead children, mothers, and sons, fathers and hopes for the future, all snatched away by a lunatic who was dead sure of his super-patriotic fervor was hell-bent on proving his point, civilian casualties be damned.
We will always have wars, the Bible says, starving people, poverty, insanity and the downtrodden. It is up to us to shovel back against the tide and stop bitching against each other in the process.
Grab a shovel and pitch in. My grandfather said it best when, during the great depression his oil company was nose diving under. He told me when you're bailing out your own sinking boat and you bump into someone behing you shoveling out water, too - that is probably the only true friend you'll ever have.
We should all shut up and shovel.
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