Word: horror
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...myself from the images coming from the press, neither watching television nor looking online. I had stopped reading articles, feeling overwhelmed by the scope of coverage and not knowing where to begin. The enormity of the event had not resonated. How do we act in the midst of such horror? Is it okay to smile or laugh? Should we attempt to talk about anything aside from the attack? Is doing so a sign of insensitivity and apathy or a healthy resilience, to the tune of “America will not be stopped; freedom will not relent...
Graham, who offered perhaps the evening’s strongest criticism of the U.S.’s foreign policy, suggested that the horror of the attacks is relatively small compared to the human rights violations that occur regularly across the world...
...horror of shell-shocked, bloodied civilians wandering the streets after a suicide bombing is a sight that Americans associate more with Jerusalem than with New York. But the attack on Sept. 11 brought the specter of terrorism to the centers of our nation’s greatest cities. This is a specter that Israel has been fighting for years, and the international coalition against terrorism that President George W. Bush is trying to assemble should include Israel as a partner...
While I champion free expression, I must shake my head in horror at what is being expressed. Military retaliation might not be the preferred response, but it is the best the U.S. and its coalition can do to show terrorists that violence and evil will not have the last word...
...first news was flashed to their Secret Service detail. Their plane was diverted to Milwaukee, Wis., and they were rushed off to a motel beyond the city limits. They could do very little but follow events on television as the rest of the nation was doing. The grief, the horror of the atrocity, pervaded their small outpost. The President, flying out of Florida, put in a call to his father. "Where are you?" the son asked. "I'm in Milwaukee," reported the father. "What are you doing there?" the son wanted to know. "This is where you grounded me," explained...