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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (46732)	7/24/1999 8:28:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Part of it is our tribal collectivist feelings. I mourned terribly when FDR died, we had just survived a terrible threat to US and mankind's freedom, and here the only chief I had ever known was dead. He had lived his life, and I felt no particular sorrow for him or his family -- it was most selfish -- I felt alone and more than a little scared. I was 14 years old. I cried when JFK was shot. He had two young kids who would never know him any better and we would never live to see grow up. I had one. It was intensely personal, I felt sorry for them. I wasn't worried much about the country (although I should have been). I was 33 years old. I didn't shed a tear when Diana died. I watch the funeral -- I love military pageantry at distance -- if its done very well (i.e. by the royal cavalry). I thought it very sad that a young woman should die so uselessly. I wouldn't cross the street to watch the second coming. I was sure her sons would miss her very much. No one questioned the cost of her state funeral. John Jr. was not my son or my friend. I thought he was funny and level-headed. I don't resent my pennies spent on the search or funeral. He was a scion of our President. He had tried to find a niche, instead of playing the son of the famous man. It would be shameful to withold what the country could do for the son of one who had borne the battle and paid the highest price. I would have had no problem if the President had given an exemption so he could have been buried near his father's grave. When naval veterans are buried at sea out here, they hire a commercial boat and bury them at sea. Personally, I would much prefer a warship. But I don't resent this privilege being granted them. I hope the sea willo give them peace.