Bin Laden

We had just put the babies to bed, when John and I saw an "alert" flash on the tv, saying President Obama was going to speak at 10:30pm E....we immediately speculated whether it was about Ghadafi or not...then I said, "Why would he need to talk about it at 10:30 at night? Especially just after having had the white house correspondents dinner...what if we got Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan?" And 5 seconds later, that's exactly what Geraldo was reporting! An hour later, President Obama (it's hard to keep those names straight!) spoke about it. I thought it was a great speech, although he seemed pretty somber, but maybe that's just in comparison to how ecstatic Geraldo was lol. It is really saddening to think about the "empty chairs at the dinner table," as a result of 9/11. It's crazy that it was 10 years ago....that a 10 yr old would be 20 now. It's frustrating to me that it took 10 years to find this crazy guy, on dialysis, regularly releasing his stupid videos in caves etc...So to know that he was found, in a HOME (not hidden in a cave) close to Islamabad, reveals that the Pakistani government was obviously protecting him. He was probably even in Iran under Ahmadinejad's protection at some point too. I didn't initially think it was a huge deal, but realizing how much power he evidently had over so many people for decades, and just being a figurehead for Al Qaeda, has to have  good affect. I hope conditions rapidly improve in the muslim world. And I hope the conditions for our brave military also improve. It breaks my heart when I hear about fallen soldiers and kids, I mean, servicemen almost 10 years younger than me, protecting our freedom in such harsh environments. Fighting an enemy that is more than willing to martyr themselves just to kill one American. And they aren't always given the credit and respect they deserve. I wonder what they will do with his body? His family wasn't on his side...
   John would periodically change it to ESPN and we saw that everyone in the stands at the game, was looking at their phones to read the good news, and they began chanting "U S A!" I wonder what the baseball players on the field were thinking lol. There were also many people gathered around the White House cheering...it reminds me of the few times I was in Washington DC and how exciting it was. It is really touching to see people once again united in patriotism for the best country in the world. God bless America and God bless our troops!
  Be careful if you're traveling...radical islam is bound to respond.