real life and the newsroom

a friend posted a few weeks ago about this new show on hbo called the newsroom. i quickly fell in love with this show and last nights episode did not disappoint. if you haven't watched it i highly recommend it. you see every episode is based on real news events, last night they covered the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. watching it brought back a lot of those emotions as i remembered watching President Obama bring the world this great news. until tonight i've never taken the time to think how police, firefighters, flight crews, and family members took that news. there was a scene that hit a lil closer to home than i would like to admit. 3 of the staff members are waiting on a plane at their gate, just waiting to deplane as this story is breaking. there is a brief moment of chaos on the plane when one of these staff members looks at the pilot and says "how paranoid do you have be..." and that is when it hits him and the scene changes. maybe you'll never watch this show and maybe you will, it really doesn't matter. for me this episode was a good reminder that life is different, peoples lives are changed, and just because we think some lives have moved on...some are still haunted by the memories of that tragic day.