There are certain world events that are so large that they sear themselves onto your brain. Many people can tell you exactly where they were when they learned, say, that President Kennedy had been shot, or that a small fleet of planes had been flown into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field.
News of the expiration of Osama bin Laden will probably be one of those moments. I heard tell of it while I was at an Applebee's in Oregon with several members of my extended family. The waitress came by our table to ask if we'd heard that the man behind the September 11 atrocities was finally good and dead.
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