Try walking past the sites of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings the week after ... city sidewalks had never been scrubbed so clean ... no cigarette butts in the cracks, immaculate gutters, and no old gum stuck to the sidewalk ... it was eerie.
... or working in Exchange Place, Jersey City, NJ, in October 2001, a month after 9/11 across the river from Ground Zero ... the hazy smoke wafting over the city ... flying above Ground Zero at night heading in and out of Newark ... seeing the lights illuminating the still smoldering ruins as first responders were still looking for remains ... meeting an AT&T worker in the hotel elevator who's been working non-stop to repair and replace all the communications equipment that was destroyed when the World Trade Towers fell ... being stuck at the eastbound tolls on the Tapanzee Bridge as the radio announced anthrax was sent to NBC studios in New York in a letter ...
There are greater traumas endured by everyday Americans that are far more significant than some politician loosing an election financed with other people's money. No one died. No one was killed. No one was maimed. A child's blood was not pressure washed off a sidewalk because some a-hole "assylum seekers" hated the nation that provided them refuge and education.
