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On MTP, Jay Barbree who's been doing the NASA beat for 50 years, and, like Tweety, has just published a book, was talking about Alan Shepherd's flight and was saying that when the rocket went up, people were gazing at it and there were those down on their knees praying for the astronaut.
You know, I've been associated with many situations in public places including car accidents, catastrophic building collapses, bank robbery sequelae, all manners of hospital situations which are acutely frightening (as part of my workdays years ago), and other life-changing incidents, and I HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN ANYONE DROP TO HIS OR HER KNEES AND START PRAYING while the incident was occurring. I'm sure many folks visited their houses of worship thereafter, or sought spirituality in the moments following the event, but never during.
I had visions of tens of thousands on the highways leading to Cape Canaveral on their knees like some Hollywood production of the Hajj. Yeah...
But this language is now pervasive...not new, but almost pandemic on the news. Speaker Pelosi is spouting this stuff in a weird attempt to...I don't know what, but it ain't working. Do recall Holden Caulfield's criticism of the alumnus of his prep school who was an undertaker and prayed a lot, even in his convertible. He could see him tooling down the highway and praying for God to send him a few more stiffs.
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