The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
The Titanic
The Hindenburg
Prisoners of war held in a Nazi concentration camp
The assassination of another president
And the space shuttle Challenger.
Don't even try to tell me that day will never come because this was different and how this affected us all on a different level and never before have we and never again shall we and blah blah blah blah blah blah. I don't buy that for a second. We've already made movies about it. And we're already minimizing the event and some of it's key participants by (allegedly) using their names as insults in altercations with (allegedly) surly cab drivers. It's really only a relative blink of an eye before we're forwarding "oh-these-are-just-awful" jokes to each other. The next thing you know, our adult grandkids will be renting inflatable "Tumbly Towers" for their kids to play on at birthday parties while the grown-ups are inside drinking coffee and commiserating about the tragedy of all the lives lost when the renegade androids blew up the undersea pneumatic passenger tube between Tokyo and San Francisco. Just a matter of time, folks.
1 comment:
just the way of the world, my friend. The way of the world.
But I have to wonder if the inevitable jokes, appropriate or not, will mean that healing has begun...
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