It was late Sunday night, Gary and I had been watching videos of old shows I had taped so we did not see the LIVE television until after Gary went upstairs to get ready for bed. Then all of a sudden a banner came across a new break: Osama bin Laden is dead. What a rush it has been such a long time – it has been since 9/11 when we witnessed the destruction he planned for our country. I called up to Gary, “Osama bin Laden is dead, turn on the television. I didn’t know how to think or feel. You don’t want to be happy when someone is killed but he is the “mastermind” of one of the worst attacks on our, my country. You want to jump up and down, shoot guns, scream and holler but alas we are a civilized people so we or at least I could never rejoice in the death of anyone.
Another story that has me very upset appeared on 60 Minutes last night- The Lara Logan story
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/28/60minutes/main20058368.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel
(CBS News)
"The night of Feb. 11, the Egyptian dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak was falling. More than 100,000 people filled Cairo's Tahrir Square in wild celebration. Among those in the crowd was our "60 Minutes" colleague, correspondent Lara Logan.
Lara, a native of South Africa, is an experienced war reporter, but Tahrir Square became her most hazardous assignment.
During the revolution, dozens of reporters were assaulted, often by agents of the regime. On the night of the 11th, a mob turned on Lara and her "60 Minutes" team and singled her out in a violent sexual assault…"
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