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Standing in line at mcdonalds tonight, and two girls were
in front of me talking. Both were dressed to go out dancing.
One leaves and the other turns to her friend and says, "I
can't believe she saw us from way over there." "Where?"
says the friend. "Over there," she answers pointing
at the door to the taco bell next door.
I quickly look the girl over. Well, it wasn't hard to miss
her since she was wearing a bright blue camo pattern tank top
and metallic/glittery shark skin pants with bleached hair that
was so teased it would have made any big hair band proud. Her
taco bell friend was dressed in a hot pink top and black shiny
pants.
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Are you as sick as I am of hearing about the McVeigh execution?
The things he says, they way people react to it. Especially around
here.
Every day this week the morning news on the radio station
I listen to has had excerpt of his book and local reaction. Every
day on the news there is something about him or Nichols and his
court proceedings or the bombing memorial. Every day since April
19, 1995 there has been something on the news bombing related.
I know when I was in South Dakota last year not once did I
hear about it when I watched the news. It was so refreshing.
I'm sure other parts of the country don't have to have it shoved
in their faces everyday.
This state thrives on its martyr-hood. April 19th. May 3rd
(1999 when an F-5 tornado hit OKC), the plane crash that killed
several Oklahoma State basketball players and a local broadcaster
the day before the Super Bowl. Yes, we're still hearing about
that. They would drag up the post office shooting in Edmond back
in what, 1983? '85? if it wasn't so damned old.
It's not even called the Bombing or the Tornado. It's the
April 19th Bombing. The May 3rd Tornado. Or simply April 19th
and May 3rd. They don't even tack a year on the date. "We're
in for severe storms tonight, but nothing like May 3rd."
the weather guy reassures us.
If someone crawled out from under a rock and heard that, they
would probably think these events happened last year the way
they are still in the news.
Yes, these are tragedies, and my heart goes out to the survivors.
But if you want time to stop and forever live in your sadness,
that's fine. I, myself, am trying to get on with life and have
no desire to turn on the news only to be thrown in a time warp
back to an event that happened long before I moved here.
I'm just speaking for myself here.
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