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** ''"I look out my windows, and the Twin Towers are gone. Instead, I can now see the Statue of Liberty. '''And you can't beat that."'''''
{{quote|Jon Stewart, ''The Daily Show,'' [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001 September 20, 2001]}}
** David Letterman's similar reaction the first night the ''[[Late Show
{{quote|"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}xut56q77GK0 We're told that they were zealots fueled by religious fervour...and if you live to be a thousand years old will that make any sense to you?] '''Will that make any goddamn sense?'''"}}
** Conan O'Brien's post 9/11 monologue. He never cried or even got choked up, but there were several moments when he paused to take a deep breath and it was obvious that he was trying not to lose it. He bluntly stated that he had no idea how they were going to go back to doing shows the way they used and then got very personal and discussed his Catholic upbringing and mentioned that he so desperately needed help to deal with the horror of what had happened that he did something he hadn't done in 8 years--went to church and prayed. He described sitting in St. Patrick's Cathedral and suddenly realizing that although the towers had been knocked down, that ''this'' beautiful building was still standing and there was still a lot of beauty in the world. It was during this speech that he first urged his young viewers to shun cynicism. Seven years later, on June 13, 2008, he simply walked onto the stage without any music or intro and informed his audience that he had just learned of the death of his friend Tim Russert. After talking about him for several minutes, he played several clips from Russert's appearances on the show.
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* Sharon Tate and Paul Richard Polanski, Steven Parent, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Leno and Rosemary [[La Bianca]]'s murders at the hands of the Manson Family.
* Phoebe Prince, a teenage Irish immigrant who committed suicide after being relentlessly bullied by six teens who even bragged about her death afterwards. Imagine how her little sister must have felt when she found her beloved older sister hanging from a stairwell with the scarf she gave her for Christmas. Truly kids are so very, very cruel.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131122095133/http://www.jaredstory.com/kristina.html Kristina Calco]. She seems to have been such a nice person, and smart, and gorgeous. But she couldn't see any of that and felt ugly inside and out because some stupid kids tore her down all the time. It makes you think about how much people's self-esteem is affected by others.
* The suicide of Mitchell Henderson, what was subsequently done to his family, and the "an hero" obscenities. Mitchell, a human being, is still the subject of online ridicule. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html He is still being bullied years after his death].
* The mine [[wikipedia:Upper Big Branch mine explosion|explosion]] in Montcoal, West Virginia in April of 2010. 25 men were identified as killed, and for four days hope held out for the missing 4, but they too, were identified. The tearjerker for me is how this was all completely preventable and there was so much that could have been done to make it so an accident like that would not have happened.
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