I must admit I've found it difficult to match the displays of sentiment shown for Ms Winehouse in these past couple of days- but then it seems I'm so often out of step with others! With her death coming on the same day as the deaths of 74 Norwegians I tried to balance the two but was unable to find even an ounce of sympathy for AW. Her death was of her own choosing, no doubt originating in her choice to take drugs and to drink excessively. And it IS a choice. It's a choice made of free will that takes people along a treacherous path, often to self destruction. There are those who see no problem with her becoming a drunk and a druggie, rather seeing it as a sign of her independence, as a symbol of her creativity and the bizarre thing is, people are leaving vodka bottles at the streetside memorial.
Compare her death with that of those who were simply going about their daily lives in Oslo, looking forward to the weekend, or the young people gathered together for a summer camp on Utøya, no doubt also having fun and enjoying the association with like-minded peers. It's impossible to imagine the terror that must have gone through the minds of all those involved but for those young people to lose friends, to see them being killed in such a callous way and with such terrble ammunition, must surely damage them for life. On the plus side, what Anders Behring Breivik seems to have done is bring the nation even closer together, rather than eschew the multi-culturalism and plurality that this hate-filled Christian (explain THAT one) wants to see disappear.
Oh, and Mark? That will be the late Corporal Mark Palin of the 1st Battalion, The Rifles, killed in a bomb blast whilst attempting to neutralise near complete IEDs. He leaves a son and a pregnant wife. His funeral will go unremarked by many bar his family, his colleagues and the residents of a small market town in Wiltshire.
Compare her death with that of those who were simply going about their daily lives in Oslo, looking forward to the weekend, or the young people gathered together for a summer camp on Utøya, no doubt also having fun and enjoying the association with like-minded peers. It's impossible to imagine the terror that must have gone through the minds of all those involved but for those young people to lose friends, to see them being killed in such a callous way and with such terrble ammunition, must surely damage them for life. On the plus side, what Anders Behring Breivik seems to have done is bring the nation even closer together, rather than eschew the multi-culturalism and plurality that this hate-filled Christian (explain THAT one) wants to see disappear.
Oh, and Mark? That will be the late Corporal Mark Palin of the 1st Battalion, The Rifles, killed in a bomb blast whilst attempting to neutralise near complete IEDs. He leaves a son and a pregnant wife. His funeral will go unremarked by many bar his family, his colleagues and the residents of a small market town in Wiltshire.
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