A U.S.
nuclear submarine collided with a
Japanese
fishing research
vessel last
week. The
sub was practicing an emergency
ascent maneuver and collided with the
boat.
This was just
one among
many of the
5 minute sound bites that you have heard over the last week. On the front
page of your
town paper, it resides on the bottom, if even on the
first page at all.
The more pressing concern for most
Americans is whether Colby and Jerri will have
sex, or if Michael will finally
kill something.
Sitting on your
couch watching the
news, you heard about the Concord crashing, "Oh
good" you say as
Tom Brokaw announces that
no Americans were on the
flight.
A
gunman enters an
office building and shoots
people randomly, but "
luckily" only one person died.
Two
army helicopters collided and
seven servicemen are left
dead. "It's the army, they need to be prepared for that" you say.
They still
died
You may have not known them, but
they had a
family, similar to yours
they had
friends, funny as yours
they were a
person, and now they are no more
And all you do is sigh, and look at the clock thinking, "20 more minutes until
Survivor is on."