All these college kids chanting in front of the White House and at Ground Zero... These kids that were 9, 10 and 11 at the time of the attacks? But I (who stood and watched black smoke snake down the horizon line) have no emotion like that? Why?
I don't feel glee, relief, excitement or joy. I feel nothing. Is something wrong with me? Am I just not processing? Has it just been too long in coming? Did I truly buy into the 'he's just a figure head' line we have been given for 10 years?
Don't get me wrong,
I am glad that the families of Armed Forces members that lost their lives in Afghanistan now have some sort of closure.
I am glad the President was ballsy enough to put aside his personal proclivities and act in the good of the country to sign an order allowing SEALs to enter a sovereign country and kill Bin Laden at close range if need be.
I am grateful for the CIA and Special Forces (SEAL Team 6) that risked their lives.
I am glad OBL is dead and that there will be no national fight over the location of a trial and no burial site for his followers to deify.
I just don't have any urge to chant USA or throw glow sticks in the air.
And I'm not sure why.
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