No words can describe the sense of loss we as Americans and as members of the human race feel after the events of Tuesday. No amount of outrage will ever bring those who died so needlessly back to life. And yet, nothing less than outrage is tolerable. Remember always the events of September 11, 2001.
I offer my profoundest condolences to the victims and their families, and my unflinching gratitude to those risking their lives in the relief efforts.
To everyone else, I urge you to help start the physical and spiritual healing process by donating blood or money to the American Red Cross:
God bless....
...no man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's
or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me,
for I am involved in mankind,
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572-1631)