I asked in a thread a while ago (probably around April 18th) about why there aren't more songs about (it was the Lockerbie reference that made me think of this) the terrorism of the '80s. The context in which I was asking was remembering my father being killed in the Beirut Embassy bombing. The answer was basically that I should write the song myself as only I can say what *I* was feeling... but I still wonder why there aren't more tragic ballads nowadays, and I don't agree that what happened was a personal tragedy, but rather a worldwide one (oh, OK, at least a national one). I like ballads, and it seems as if all the ones I know are about tragedies (how many songs start off with 2 brothers and end up with 2 brothers? Only Shel Silverstein has a train not wrecking...).

Also, in another aside, the most heroism I remember hearing from tapes on a newscast was the copilot of the Aloha Airlines plane that lost its roof and DIDN'T crash, whoo boy, that woman had ice in her veins. But I don't recall anything about Sioux City other than the video, so I can't compare. Another was the voice of that ABC reporter at Tianenman Square, being chased --and caught-- by the Chinese cops.