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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (30785)	10/3/2001 1:38:44 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I know what you mean. I thought, when I heard it, "Grateful? But that implies something ridiculous, it implies that...." but then I thought, Well, whom will that foolish formulation hurt? If I got one of those medals, I'd know it was a foolish message, but wouldn't think it was a trivializing one. Its error is in the opposite direction. So no, I wasn't offended. I saw a woman who lost her civilian husband say, in an interview, "He died for his country. And I'm proud of that." I got confused. Because it makes no distinction between those who chose heroic deaths and those who were simply and tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time. But she did want to believe that. And her husband did die for being an American at work in a symbol of America that day. I think the message probably represented a spillover of grief and horror and anger into the choice of the words on the back of the medal. They made no sense, really. Someone who has a medal given for their loved one's voluntary act of heroicism might be offended. Still, I wasn't personally offended. I can't begrudge those stunned people anything.