My husband was a NYC firefighter, and I am not dancing on the grave

[adigal]

Nor is my husband, who was disabled by 9/11. When he saw the pictures of people celebrating today, he was disgusted. It is like a football game, he said, and we won. Let's cheer, and shout USA, USA. We killed a man. Let's cheer. He said it makes no difference, there are many more where he came from, and none of this brings people back. Yes, justice was served. We are both quietly satisfied with that. But people are not coming back.

Neither of us wanted OBL to get away with what he did, but we both feel that the response of many Americans will make us look just like the other side, people who would dance if anything happened to our leaders. And my husband, who refuses to identify as any political party, is more liberal than I am, in that he understood right away how this man's death doesn't change anything, except how we are viewed in the world by our reaction.

We both would have attended a candlelight vigil, or something like that, but this celebrating is really upsetting to us. We are not supposed to cheer death in our Christian nation. We are supposed to be better.

I am at lunch, I can't respond until after work, I don't want to cause flames, I just wanted to share our view, and our discomfort. I have been here a long time, I don't like to see us act like them, but it is everyone's personal choice how to see this death and respond to it.

Peace,
Adigal