Offended

I have allowed myself to be offended by the bold, Page 1 headline "Americans celebrate death of bin Laden" in Tuesday's E-R. Whoever wrote that is apparently oblivious to the fact that men of good will do not celebrate the death of other human beings. That kind of behavior is more appropriate to terrorists and others who lack compassion and respect for their fellow men.

Even misguided, vicious killers like Osama bin Laden leave behind a few people who loved them despite their faults, and it is not appropriate that anyone should further burden them in their sorrow. Those insensitive persons who went out to dance and sing in the street on Sunday night, thus demonstrating their inhumanity, might better have dropped to their knees and prayed for bin Laden's immortal soul. Taking pleasure in suffering and death is morbid and inexcusably cruel.