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People generally seem surprised by the depth of the anger in their feelings. I am no exception, though for some reason I have been thinking a lot lately of how this country would react to something like this. After that thing at the Sbarros and the USA Today article describing people walking around with nails sticking out of their heads-- what would Americans do after somethoing like that. Those guys in Hebron who threw the policeman out the window and then held up their hands with the blood on them in celebration. I can't even bring myself to write what I truly feel at contemplating things like that, because it's too horrible, and now I know that the whole country feels like that about what has happened here, with a scope that is so much more enormous, a violation so much more profound than anyone could ever have imagined in their worst nightmares. Context, perspective, US actions, etc... Now is just not the time.

I talked to my Dad and he actually had very little to say about all this. With all the comparison to Pearl Harbor, you have to recall that people of that generation have seen all kinds of things to destroy their faith in God and man. 40 years ago they waited for the world to end. A banal thought, but this is traumatic for us because we don't think of these kinds of things any more.

Creepiest part is the quiet except for the rolling booms of what must be jet fighters. That has been the dominant sound all day.

Today is Mrs. Sanpaku's 29th birthday.