EDITORIAL SHATTERED PEACE THE METROLINK TRAIN TRAGEDY LEAVES US FEELING VULNERABLE AGAIN.THE Metrolink train tragedy in Glendale, caused by an aborted suicide attempt suicide attempt, suicide bid n → intento de suicidio suicide attempt, suicide bid n → tentative f de suicide , reminds us once again how, in a moment, on any given day, our peace and sense of safety can be shattered. In the post-9-11 world, Americans should hardly need reminding, but our yearning for normalcy nor·mal·cy n. Normality. Noun 1. normalcy - being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning normality is so great. Then a man described as deranged de·range tr.v. de·ranged, de·rang·ing, de·rang·es 1. To disturb the order or arrangement of. 2. To upset the normal condition or functioning of. 3. To disturb mentally; make insane. and suicidal drives his Jeep Grand Cherokee The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a mid-size sport utility vehicle produced by the Jeep division of DaimlerChrysler. European Grand Cherokees are manufactured in Austria by Magna Steyr. Development The Grand Cherokee was a spinoff of the smaller Jeep Cherokee. onto the railroad tracks with the intention of killing himself. But the truck gets stuck, and he changes his mind and walks away. In that moment, suicide became homicide, leaving 10 people dead, some 200 injured, many of them critically. Police said Juan Manuel Several Spanish and Portuguese princes wore this name:
As the city awakened and news of the tragedy spread, many people surely found it hard to escape the first terrible thought: Is this the product of a terrorist attack? That this was the work of one desperate man who lost his nerve in the final moments of killing himself is somehow almost more unnerving un·nerve tr.v. un·nerved, un·nerv·ing, un·nerves 1. To deprive of fortitude, strength, or firmness of purpose. 2. To make nervous or upset. . It didn't take extensive plotting and scheming to cause such mayhem and destruction. It happened all too easily. The tragedy shows how vulnerable we are, how it's way too easy to crash a commuter train that's typically carrying as many as 250 people. How much worse could it have been if the Jeep had been filled with explosives - as recently depicted in the season premiere In television, a season première refers to the first episode of a new television season for a series that has been renewed. In North America, a given show's season première often airs in September or October, after several months of reruns. of Fox's popular drama ``24''? Pointing to the many deaths involving Metrolink trains, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca - who was shaken by the death of one of his deputies, James Tutino, 47, who was heading to work from Simi Valley - said that the public isn't adequately protected when it rides the rails. That's for sure. It's time to take whatever steps are necessary to reduce the hazards, even as we are forced to recognize that life has its risks. We can all take heart, though, from the remarkable response of workers and residents near the crash scene, as well as the speed and skill of our highly trained and dedicated firefighters, paramedics and police officers. |
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