Tim Russert.

Four innocent children gone.  Many more seriously injured.

There are tragic tales around the world, many we have not heard.

Pray for the fathers and sons.  For the sorrow.  If we have not felt it yet in our own lives, in some future way, we will.

So let's bow our heads and pray for us all.  We are one country, one people.  No matter your sex, creed, ethnicity or religion. 

Suffering is universal.

Makes alot of things seem trivial, huh?

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I used the "shell shock" part in another blog, but I just thought ya'll might get a kick out of the whole album - even in text form. 

When I read a word I'm unfamiliar with, I tend to look for the "root" word.  Where's the beef?  The substance of it?  If you understand the meaning of the root word, you can often get the gist of it.  The general idea.
 
In the case of "casualties", if I was unfamiliar with it, I would draw a horribly wrong conclusion based on it's "root".

According to Heidi Somebody just on MSNBC HardBall.  Not my favorite background noise but even so...seriously?

Although, I like the interpretation that apparently Democrats have control over everything. ;)