Has it really been more than two years since the anthrax attacks — and still no one arrested? Hard to believe! We’ve managed to bag Saddam, who never did anything to us. But Ashcroft, Ridge and untold billions of tax dollars later there are still no arrests, still no information on how anthrax from a government lab managed to get released. Note there is not a single word in the entire article mentioning the eternally on-going investigation. Where is the media to demand an accounting of the progress?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The central mail-processing center where deadly anthrax-laced letters were discovered in the nation’s capital was set to open to the public Monday for the first time since it was closed 26 months ago. On Sunday, the former Brentwood facility was officially renamed in honor of two workers killed by anthrax-laced letters that were on their way to Capitol Hill…
… Their families were greeted with a standing ovation Sunday as they helped unveil one of two plaques, each about three feet square, that will be placed inside the building. The plaques’ bronze-on-black writing reads, “We are poorer for their loss but richer for having been touched by these dedicated, hard-working heroes”…
Not meaning in any way to belittle the memory of the unfortunate victims of this tragedy, I have not read of any heroic actions on their part in the event. At what point in time did the words “victim” and “hero” become synonymous? Getting run over by a city bus is not heroic, unless you were trying to save a child who had wandered into the street.