It's not really getting any better. I've been able to breathe today, knowing that my family and friends were safe, and no more attacks were coming. Still, it's unfolding and it's almost gettng worse. Now that the inital shock has passed, I'm starting to realize exactly what happened.
I had to leave my math class this morning. People almost seemed to be joking about the attacks, in hindsight I realize that they weren't meanning to sound flippant, but it didn't affect them. There were attacks at USF last night. It hasn't been on any of the local news sites, I guess they want to put the best possible face on the people of Tampa. From what I've been able to gather, Muslim students who attended a prayer vigil for the victims were beat up by other students. What kind of sick fuckers would beat up the people that they are with every day just because they were Muslim?! The students there didn't do anything, they were problalby sad and shocked too, they were innocent.
I've been hearing a lot of support on the radio (all the local stations have started covering the news and having call-in's), for war and retaltion aganist the whole Middle East. I can't accept the idea of bombing another country for revenge. I just keep thinking of the familys here that have been devestated, should we really be putting other people thought the same hell?
That's really all I have to say today. I know I can't really say anything that hasn't already been said be somebody, somewhere, but in truth I still can't fully believe it. |
