Gaaa -- I ain't got no closure

For Missing Guards' Kin, An Agonizing Conclusion
By Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Foreign Service

Excerpts - the bold emphasis is mine - the rest here:

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., March 29 -- Relatives of five private security contractors abducted in Iraq gathered at the Comfort Inn near Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport this weekend. Their 16-month nightmare had reached an excruciating and prolonged conclusion that began with the delivery of five fingers to U.S. authorities last month and continued late Saturday with the identification of another victim.

OK -- does anybody wonder how these people get the money and time to come flying into some airport so they can "be together?" You don't? Do you at least wonder why the media completely skips asking this question? "So how did you all come to be here at the same time?" Yes, it's quite a mystery -- but never mind that -- how could you even ask that question in this time of deep mourning -- don't you have any respect? After all, for all you know, it's just a big coinkydink.

The ordeal is still not over. The fifth guard, Jonathon Cote, 25, a former U.S. Army paratrooper from suburban Buffalo, remains missing. U.S. authorities have told his family they are aware of a body near the southern city of Basra, but its recovery appears to have been delayed by fighting between Shiite militias and Iraqi and U.S. government forces there.

"I don't know which is worse, to know that your child is gone or to be waiting like this," said Cote's mother, Lori Silveri, as she sat at one of several tables pulled together to accommodate the relatives at a steakhouse Friday night. "I still don't have any closure."

"I figured this would be a closure for us, but it's not," DeBrabander said Saturday afternoon as she smoked a cigarette in front of the airport hotel. "It just opens up another can of worms. There's too many questions unanswered. And we're going to keep at it until we get our answers."

Er -- is it just me -- or does everyone eating a free rare steak need closure on everything now? I don't even know how people made it the last 10,000 years without their "closure." How did this come to be? How did people suddenly come to the conclusion that they MUST HAVE CLOSURE? And what, exactly, does closure get you? I don't know, Klown, but I gotta have it -- the media and the great "science" of psychology tell me so. And -- if I don't get it, I have to mention it in conversation -- so everyone knows how smart I am.

It never ceases to amaze me how the media can brainwash the sheeple so easily -- and the sheeple just lap it up and regurgitate it as if they had studied it like a math course.

Contrast the above with this guy -- who actually has a brain.
Three times in the past week, FBI agents visited or called Jon Cote's father and stepmother at their home outside Buffalo. On each occasion, the agents informed the Cotes that at least one of the missing guard's colleagues -- but not their son -- was dead.

"At this point, I assume the worst," said Francis Cote, who did not attend the Minneapolis gathering. Asked how he dealt with the uncertainty, he said: "My wife and I have a strong Christian faith. We pray to God for strength. And our relationship with each other is strong enough so that when one of us falters, the other person can be there for them."

Good for you, Mr. Cote -- the Klown is sorry for your loss and wishes you the best. Looks like you'll do fine -- even without "closure." I'll bet that pisses the media off.