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In reply to the discussion: Please help me understand something. WHY aren't we bombing that convoy? [View all]calimary
(81,110 posts)I get that, too.
But following the story, seeing the footage, thinking A LOT about the civilians caught in this worldly Hell, seeing the footage of the women and children, the babies in makeshift nurseries in makeshift basement shelters, the sorrowful goodbyes at the border crossings when the men have to stay and fight and may likely face death...
It just throws me back to asking questions. The last time I was this emotionally caught up in a story was when John Lennon was shot. And everybody I worked with was my age and loved Lennon and the Beatles and had grown up with it, and many of them cried, too. I was just fortunate enough not to break down while live on the air. And THERE, AGAIN, was a situation wherein you cover it, you've got all the facts, you've got the names and faces and backgrounds and motivations, all those "who-what-where-when-why-how's" and you're STILL left with questions. The whole lot of us at that network were messed up on that one, to one degree or other, for more than a week.