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Bereavement

PinkTiger

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3. I think it is. But I think that everybody has their own personal 9/11's too.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Sun Sep 11, 2022, 11:06 PM

Sep 2022

Any event that makes us feel vulnerable, afraid and insecure in and for our country, will bring about this kind of fear and sadness. Anytime we lose so many people at once, with no reason and no real cause, just because, it is terrible.
We never, really become immune to the effects.
I’m older. I was born in 1950 and was 13 when John Kennedy died. I was 17 when Robert Kennedy, Malcom X and Martin Luther King Died.

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Is anyone else finding themselves crying and crying [View all] BigmanPigman Sep 2022 OP

Hang in! I still feel liking crying on the anniversary of my fathers death... Enter stage left Sep 2022 #1

You would not have a heart if this event did not stir emotions. Deuxcents Sep 2022 #2

I think it is. But I think that everybody has their own personal 9/11's too. PinkTiger Sep 2022 #3

i was telling my 30 yo son about the day. he was in tears. mopinko Sep 2022 #4

No. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2022 #5