BS: 9/11 Hierarchy of Grieving Boston Globe

Subject: RE: BS: 9/11 Hierarchy of Grieving Boston Globe
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 09:19 AM

Mo point to the post, Murray. As I said, I just found it interesting, and thought others might like to get a chance to read it, so I gave them a heads up.

You are entitled to your opinion about the article, and to express them here, of course. Sorry you didn't appreciate the article.

Subject: RE: BS: 9/11 Hierarchy of Grieving Boston Globe
From: mg
Date: 17 Nov 02 - 08:49 PM

It is tragic. Did you see the pictures of the babies born to the widows? It is tragic either way and the stewardesses were quite heroic as well as the other women.... mg

Subject: RE: BS: 9/11 Hierarchy of Grieving Boston Globe
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 17 Nov 02 - 08:30 PM

GUEST. I assume you are well intentioned, but even after reading your post twice (with furrowed brow even) I still don't understand the point which you are trying to make.

Laura Secor's article is ill-written, IMHO.

Murray

Subject: BS: 9/11 Hierarchy of Grieving Boston Globe
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Nov 02 - 12:28 PM

A very interesting article I thought some here might be interested in reading from today's Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/321/focus/Invisible_mourners+.shtml

It begins with this:

Invisible mourners

Why the widowers of 9/11 are so hard to see

By Laura Secor, 11/17/2002

N THE PUBLIC record of Sept. 11, 2001, grief bears two faces. One is that of the young suburban widow, soldiering through her sorrow for the sake of her children. The other is the male firefighter weeping for fallen colleagues.

Widows and firefighters are far from the only mourners of Sept. 11, but they have become the archetypal ones, perhaps because their stories recall a familiar narrative of war: lost soldiers, shell-shocked veterans, grieving war widows. The grievers, in this tableau, are women, and the heroes are men. It's a dichotomy that may have applied (though imperfectly) to another era's battlefields overseas. But it seems intuitively ill-suited to the inhabitants of contemporary New York.

Where are the husbands who lost wives on Sept. 11? Is their grief less heart-rending? And where are the women heroes, like the flight attendants who rushed hijackers on American Airlines flight 93, or Moira Smith, the New York City police officer who died evacuating hundreds of others from the World Trade Center lobby?