Talking About One Tragedy While Remembering Another
Hello, everybody!
Well, since school started back in session this past week, there's not much to comment on. Not much except, of course, the big catastrophe that happened up in San Bruno, California, right near San Francisco, this past Thursday night. One of my father's relatives, who lives not too far from where the gas main exploded, actually witnessed the fireball shooting up into the sky when the explosion happened! She said her family was just about to sit down to dinner when they heard this loud explosion which sounded, in her words, "like a volcano going off," then they saw this flash of light right outside their dining room window, and her son looked out the window and saw this huge column of flames right out in the distance, about a mile or two from where they lived. And, as massive as those flames were, they just knew something major had gone down, either a jumbo jet crashing or a gas main exploding, which, as we all found out, was what really happened. We, here in Hawthorne, were all watching local programming on our Fox Broadcasting affiliate, KTTV Channel 11, when our local Fox news crew broke the news. None of us could even begin to believe what we were seeing. It looked like something out of a Hollywood movie (so did, matter of fact, the other tragedy that happened nine years ago yesterday, but I'll get to that later). Only thing was, it was tragically true. Makes you wonder whether something of that magnatude could happen where you live, doesn't it?
Oh well, on to the other tragedy this past week. As you all know, it's been nine years since the World Trade Center towers came chashing down in New York City, and yet, controversy continues to swirl around it like a tempest storm. Everything from why we haven't caught Ossama Bin Laden yet after eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, to the mosque that they're thinking of building a couple of blocks Ground Zero site, to whether or not the memorial site should be a park, or a museum, or even another set of office buildings. But whatever the controversy that we as a people are still talking about nearly a decade later, we must always remember this historic time in American history and make sure that it never happens again.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and remember to help the eathquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
Well, since school started back in session this past week, there's not much to comment on. Not much except, of course, the big catastrophe that happened up in San Bruno, California, right near San Francisco, this past Thursday night. One of my father's relatives, who lives not too far from where the gas main exploded, actually witnessed the fireball shooting up into the sky when the explosion happened! She said her family was just about to sit down to dinner when they heard this loud explosion which sounded, in her words, "like a volcano going off," then they saw this flash of light right outside their dining room window, and her son looked out the window and saw this huge column of flames right out in the distance, about a mile or two from where they lived. And, as massive as those flames were, they just knew something major had gone down, either a jumbo jet crashing or a gas main exploding, which, as we all found out, was what really happened. We, here in Hawthorne, were all watching local programming on our Fox Broadcasting affiliate, KTTV Channel 11, when our local Fox news crew broke the news. None of us could even begin to believe what we were seeing. It looked like something out of a Hollywood movie (so did, matter of fact, the other tragedy that happened nine years ago yesterday, but I'll get to that later). Only thing was, it was tragically true. Makes you wonder whether something of that magnatude could happen where you live, doesn't it?
Oh well, on to the other tragedy this past week. As you all know, it's been nine years since the World Trade Center towers came chashing down in New York City, and yet, controversy continues to swirl around it like a tempest storm. Everything from why we haven't caught Ossama Bin Laden yet after eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, to the mosque that they're thinking of building a couple of blocks Ground Zero site, to whether or not the memorial site should be a park, or a museum, or even another set of office buildings. But whatever the controversy that we as a people are still talking about nearly a decade later, we must always remember this historic time in American history and make sure that it never happens again.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and remember to help the eathquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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