News: Bin Laden is Dead and I Don't Feel Like Celebrating
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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Tonight, I remember where I was on 9/11. In fact, I remember every second of the morning, how I felt, and what I was doing. Every tiny detail is etched into my heart. Although I was miles and miles away from NYC, in Texas, my heart shattered with the rest of the world. Now today, 5/1, I'll remember exactly where I was when I found out that Bin Laden is dead, but there is no celebration here. It just feels, well... wrong.
Let me clarify. Bin Laden is responsible for thousands of deaths on that dreadful day and I'm sure the families who directly suffered on 9/11 would agree that this man ultimately changed their lives.
He changed mine too.
In fact, we have an almost 9-yr-old child because of that day. Yes, he's a 9/11 baby and one day we'll tell him the story of why he was conceived on 9/11, how our hearts were broken, how fear overwhelmed us, and we turned to each other to hold onto some sort of hope.
Today, I've had a mix of emotions as I read things like:
It makes me very uneasy to see people "celebrating" the death of a human being. Don't stone me quite yet. I need to clarify, because it's a very sensitive topic, Bin Laden is a horrible horrible person and responsible for so much pain. He's the epitome of hatred, yet I can't bring my heart to rejoice in the fact that he's dead.
Is this justice?
Am I any less American?
I think not, I feel he needed to be brought to justice and I rest in the scripture verse that Josceyn from Mami to Multiples posted on her Facebook Wall "Those who use the sword will die by the sword..." Matthew 26:52.
I, solely, believe God's plan is perfect and divine justice will prevail. While the heartbreak is still very vivid to all of us Americans, making most feel the need to celebrate, I'm still holding on to the hope I, so urgently, grasped for on 9/11 when we conceived our oldest child.
Life is worth celebrating. Death? Not so much.
How did you feel after hearing that Bin Laden is Dead? Did you rejoice for an instant? Did you sit in silence? Did your heart weigh a little heavy remembering 9/11?
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I agree with you. Great post : )
I do not feel like celebrating. This was a symbolic victory for the U.S., but I do not believe we should be in the streets celebrating. What kind of a message does this send to the rest of the world?
The news that Osama bin Laden is dead will bring great relief to people across the world. Osama bin Laden was responsible for the worst terrorist atrocities the world has seen – for 9/11 and for so many attacks, which have cost thousands of lives, many of them British. It is a great success that he has been found and will no longer be able to pursue his campaign of global terror.
My birthday is on 9/11 every time on that day my heart breaks!
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Hey Sara, you are right but I have to say that this man has single-handedly caused so much pain, loss and evil that I liken him to Hitler. I wrote a tweet last night saying that if the news that was about to break was that he was killed, I would throw a party. Well, I'm not going to throw a party over this but that's just how I felt in the raw at the moment. Only someone like this would tempt me to feel like I do but it's just how I feel right now and it doesn't mean it's right in God's eyes.
I felt like justice was served in a way. As Atlanta said above it is more of a relief so to say. Not him being dead per say but being "caught" I don't know if it could have gone any other way than this really.
Would it have been great if he would have surrendered and come or if we could have captured him and put him behind bars or whatever they do to people of his stature on the most wanted list? absolutely but in the end, what in the world would that have meant.
If he were behind bars would his supporters continue to try to find a way to break him out or other things making it worse on whichever country had him in custody?
We know he would not have surrendered and just come, heck he used a woman as a shield, so that was out of the question. And since our military had to use force b/c they were using force against us it really seems to me this was the only outcome.
I definitely wasn't going to be in the streets celebrating and I think the people who were while some were celebrating for wrong reasons, more felt the relief that I felt and it united American once again. Not because they are sick people who want to see someone die but because this man did something so horrible (I shudder to think if my kids had been in that building working) and he was finally brought to justice. I think that would have been the same amount of cheering if they had been able to capture him alive. I could be wrong but I feel I am not
I do think this was the necessary step to putting him to a stop since they would never have surrendered peacefully and were firing against OUR men and women who are protecting not only our nation but the nation they were in as well. It's more about a feeling of relief for a moment of the "capture" of a man who has done horrible things not just to the U.S. but others as well. Just my personal feelings.