This essay was originally published at The Freedom Chronicles and was written in the months following September 11, 2001, when everyone seemed to be afraid of everything and the news only seemed to be making things much worse. Now in the aftermath of another tragedy involving children - the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementery School -- I pull this essay out to remind us that not all is bad. However, if we watch the news and their non-stop coverage of this tragedy, and let fear permeate every cell in our body, it will damage us all. Let us grieve together if it makes us feel stronger, but not let fear consume us. My deepest condolences for all the families involved in this latest tragedy.
JonBenet Ramsey.
The name of a six-year-old beauty pageant winner shouldn't terrify me --
but it does. Like Danielle van Dam, Megan Kanka, Polly Klaas, and Etan
Patz, JonBenet has achieved national name recognition in a way that none
of us would ever choose for our own children. And JonBenet's brutal
murder represents everything we fear as parents.
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