Kill her? Nah, I'm not interested. I think it's more appropriate to ignore her. I know little about her but reading the transcript I'd have to say she's an attention seeker who finds the most inflammatory thing to say so that people will give her the spotlight.
What I dislike here is that she lumps all the widows into one group. Yes, some widows use their status as a 9/11 for political reasons but not all. And why focus on just the widows? Why not attack the children and widowers too? Surely, there are widowers and offspring that have used their status politically? I am very quiet about being a 9/11 widow for the most part. I don't parade around saying it to people and I don't use it for leverage. But I don't think everyone deals with grief and loss the same way either. I don't think she truly udnerstands what any of us are going through. IMO, I bet some of the widows have channelled their energies into political ventures because if they sit still, the pain will make them crazy.
The best thing to do with people who have such a narrowminded view as that is to not feed their egos. She is right to say it's a national tragedy but she forgets that it is a very personal one too. And actually, the nation itself chose to give us a spotlight when they created a fund to help us and then decided that a memorial on a grand scale was necessary. People needed to put a face to the tragedy and so many of us found ourselves thrust into the spotlight. Who is she to say how we use that?
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What I dislike here is that she lumps all the widows into one group. Yes, some widows use their status as a 9/11 for political reasons but not all. And why focus on just the widows? Why not attack the children and widowers too? Surely, there are widowers and offspring that have used their status politically? I am very quiet about being a 9/11 widow for the most part. I don't parade around saying it to people and I don't use it for leverage. But I don't think everyone deals with grief and loss the same way either. I don't think she truly udnerstands what any of us are going through. IMO, I bet some of the widows have channelled their energies into political ventures because if they sit still, the pain will make them crazy.
The best thing to do with people who have such a narrowminded view as that is to not feed their egos. She is right to say it's a national tragedy but she forgets that it is a very personal one too. And actually, the nation itself chose to give us a spotlight when they created a fund to help us and then decided that a memorial on a grand scale was necessary. People needed to put a face to the tragedy and so many of us found ourselves thrust into the spotlight. Who is she to say how we use that?