A Newspaper's Role
Almost every other day since the Marathon bombing The Boston Globe carries a story about the victims. And each time I read one of the accounts my eyes tear up. So many lives disrupted, so many people needing to heal—physically and emotionally. So many people needing to find new types of employment.
Do the perpetrators of violent senseless killings ever feel remorse? Do they wonder about how people proceed with their lives? Do they ever read the stories and learn their victims names?
Just today officials released information about a note "scrawled inside the boat" where one of the suspects was hiding. "Unnamed sources" said the Marathon victims were referred to as "collateral damage."
None of this makes sense—but violence makes no sense.
On the other side of the senselessness is the goodness of so many people. I appreciate the stories that the newspaper carries because it's important to put faces to the victims and to the "heroes" and do so in a respectful manner.
Do the perpetrators of violent senseless killings ever feel remorse? Do they wonder about how people proceed with their lives? Do they ever read the stories and learn their victims names?
Just today officials released information about a note "scrawled inside the boat" where one of the suspects was hiding. "Unnamed sources" said the Marathon victims were referred to as "collateral damage."
None of this makes sense—but violence makes no sense.
On the other side of the senselessness is the goodness of so many people. I appreciate the stories that the newspaper carries because it's important to put faces to the victims and to the "heroes" and do so in a respectful manner.
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