Posted by thuso on July 13, 2005, at 16:27:25
In reply to Sorry - I didn't mean to post this.., posted by NikkiT2 on July 13, 2005, at 12:50:36
> I left it up on my computer, someone noticed my compter was about to reset and posted it for me..
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> please ignore it..
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> I won't be returning to it..There is nothing wrong with posting this. I hope we never get to the point where we become numb to these types of attacks.
One of the biggest shocks of my life occured when I was in Jerusalem about 18 months ago. My group was just arriving at our hotel and planning to head out to this one part of Jerusalem. As soon as we got there we see all these police fly past us. It turned out that a bus was blown up about a mile from us in the area we were about to go. Over 20 people died. All of us were in shock, but when we went outside to go get some food we were in even more shock at the reaction from the Israeli population. There was none! People walked around like nothing happened...and this was a little over a mile away from the bombing. I guess they had just gotten so used to suicide bombings that they don't have the emotional reactions that we do.
I never want to get to the point where it's normal to react in the way the Israelis did. Even though this was not as big an attack as 9/11, people still died because of the actions of a terrorist group. We shouldn't forget that.
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