Don't Say a Toast to Death
retaining our humanity in times of great inhumanity
One warm night on the St. Mary’s River, shouts echoed across campus. We looked out our dorm room window to see an elated crowd waving a large American flag. It was May 2, 2011 and Osama Bin Laden had been killed.
I had such a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach looking out at the enthusiastic crowd of students. They were clanging beer bottles and si…