If your point is to not take it lightly, I can agree with that.

Take care.
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I asked people to speak to someone who lost someone before posting as unfortunately we have a lot of people in America who are spoon fed by the media just like the extremist in Muslim countries. These people have probably never left their state and know more about their HS football team then world politics. Those are the people that I don’t think can understand how people would feel about the release of this murderer as their heart is in the right place but they are too quick to forgive us they have probably never lost anything.

kosmo: good luck with Libya giving him back to you.
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However, regarding the concept of compassion in a more general sense, I think compassion and forgiveness are the only real ways to heal yourself and get past horrible acts done by evil people. I’m not saying we should release murderers and terrorists left and right, but paying back hate with hate will only consume us as well. Of all the families of victims, the only one that sounds to me like she is truly healed is the sister of a man who was killed in this attack. She does not (seem to)bear a grudge, and realizes that no matter where this man dies, it will not bring her brother back.

I am a Christian and God forgives me my sins as I forgive others. He also says to leave room for His justice. I do not know if I would be able to forgive if I had a family member killed, in this or any other manner. I hope that I would be able to have the strength to do so.

Regarding your requirement to speak with someone who has had a family member murdered before posting, I am currently deployed in Iraq and have not had a chance to speak with the families of the men from my unit who were recently killed. I hope it is still all right with you if I post.
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One day while working in the cemetery I had the very unique privilege of meeting a woman whose husband had been in the Pentagon on that fateful day 8 years ago: Sept. 11, 2001.

I was in Illinois when those towers and the Pentagon were bombed with commercial jets so meeting this woman was the closest I had come to that experience in our national history.

Her pain was visible and yet she talked about her husband and his service to our country with pride.

The damage that those killers did and the damage that the killer in your story here did is far greater than most people realize. Those are American lives were talking about. Are they some cheap item that we just have enough of so it doesn’t really matter when someone decides to take a few out?

And to think that he got a heroes welcome! If I ever meet that man I will spit in his face!

I’m sorry. Now I’m ranting.
.-= Nicholas Cardot´s last blog ..A Classic Example of Noteworthy Branding =-.
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