I'd received all those e-mails about the candlelight vigils at 7PM Pacific and intended on lighting one when I got home.
As I drove through the main street in my hometown, I saw the most amazing sight. The entire street was lined with people, young children, old men, white, Latin-American, Asian-American, Arab-American, African-American, you name it, all standing there holding candles in silence. It was one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen, all those people standing together after this tragedy.
When I got home to my house, in one of those traditional New England suburban developments, my wife and I took our dog Loki for his evening walk. Sure enough, as we did so, we passed by countless peeople holding their candles in the cold night.
I can see having the Carnival as a means to get our minds off of it, But not when they take that attitude.
There was a carival down here too but it packed up on Fri. Nite because not too many people were interested in going to one.
You might be pleased to note that down here on the Island/Outer boro's of NYC there were candles all over, A Flag on about 80% of the Buildings and on about 50% of the Cars.
Unfortunatly it is almost impossible to find a store that still has any flags for sale
Just a little note to show you every one is not like that
Karg
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>I hear about the "massive outpouring" of support, but here in Wayne County and Ontario County the "unplesantness" seems to have gone un-noticed.
Nobody gives a damn about anything nowadays. 'unpleasantness' is one of those nice words for things we'd rather not know about (note that I'm not using the word 'Euphemism', for obvious reasons).
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