Eloquent Voices After The Crash
|
TOOLBOX
   Resize
COMMENT
 Discussion Policy
 CLOSE
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post.
Who's Blogging  |
I want to thank Eli Saslow for his elegant, deeply poignant piece, "Three Minutes to Fort Totten" [front page, June 28].
Observations and detailed descriptions in articles can often make the reporting seem disturbingly subjective, inflammatory or sensationalistic, but in his piece, every detail -- down to the prayer offered to a dying young woman -- seemed essential to the creation of a dimensional, nuanced story about courage, hope and fragility. Saslow succeeded in what he set out to do: show how four lives were inextricably entwined and how, to my mind, all life in the end is inextricably entwined.
Doing that took great skill, and I commend him as well as staff writers William Wan, Theola Labbé-DeBose, James Hohmann, Josh White and Allison Klein for the respectful homage paid to those who endured, and those who did not live to endure, the trauma of this unspeakable tragedy.
-- Leslie Jane Lass
Washington
--
