"ROT IN HELL"?

   This morning, when I found out about Bin Laden's death, one of the first things I thought about was the fact that I would need to address it in my blog, as I'm sure many of us will. What I didn't know was what exactly to write about. But after seeing the collage of newspaper covers today in class, I feel inspired to write about how inappropriate I feel it is to celebrate the killing of a human being, no matter how bad of a person they are. It is one thing to be glad he is gone, which I admittedly am, than to party outside the White House and pop champagne to the story of him, his son, and a couple others being shot. While I don't want to rain on the patriotic parade that has suddenly arisen from this occurrence, I don't think this is the time to be especially patriotic, mostly because the United States are coming off as inhumane and cruel, at least to me. Looking at the cover pages we looked at today, I am sad to see declarations of "ROT IN HELL!" and "WE GOT THE BASTARD!" Does this event not deserve the gravity that is normally involved with a person's death? Also, his death should be a reminder of the many people who died in 9/11, an extremely grave event. It should not be the revenge we have achieved in their honor.