I don't disagree with celebrating it - I just think the celebration was with misplaced intentions for a lot of people, and came off very tacky. All over D.C., I kept seeing these 'Osama got Obama'd' t-shirts, and overall, it seemed to be a very aggressive celebration.

We have every right to celebrate his death, or be happy about it, but the war is still a very sad thing that is continuing to happen. Plus, I don't know, it just seems like hate perpetuates hate, and being hateful towards a hateful man doesn't really make hate stop.

I don't know if you fully understood my poem.

It is a VERY good thing that Osama is dead. A VERY good thing. I have no problem with the fact that he's dead. I just don't like how people celebrated it in such a disrespectful and barbaric way. A lot of anti-Muslim sentiments increased at his death as well. I'm not saying Osama should live or anything like that. I'm saying it is sad that someone grew up in an environment that made them so horrible. However, hatred in his environment made him that way, and by celebrating so barbarically, we are creating a similar sort of environment for those who are impressionable - the country has a lot of anti-Muslim sentiments, for instance, and that is being transfered to younger kids. Furthermore, people are still overseas being killed; this hasn't ended the war.

I don't exactly know what part of my poem you disagree with, or what you're trying to say. I know a lot of people disagree with any poems that disagree with how the celebration of Osama's death played out - but the way the people just signed up in front of the white house, and all the 'Osama got Obama'd' shirts I keep seeing - I don't know, it just seems very tacky to me, and puts the American public in a bad light.

This is very compeling and yet i can't agree with you. I respect what your saying but I don't find it true for me. Bin Laden killed many American troops and his own people. He had children walk up to American soldiers with bombs, because he knew it would be hard for the soldiers. It was hard for my brother to shot a kid my age because he was about to kill my brother and his group. Look, I agree that we can't over look that we took a boys father from him. But does that mean that we have to over look that American men and women are killed everyday and leave their children a parent short. Or do we over look that Afghan mothers hold their blown up babies in their arms because Bin Laden's soldiers made the child kill himself. Should we over look an of these killings, no we shouldn't. We should remember them. And as for Bin Laden's kids, we just gave them a second chance at life. They now have a life that doesn't require them to work for their father and kill others. And I have one final thing I have to say. The Army isn't allowed to send a soldier back oversea after a deployment for a half a year. And mid-tour, when they get to be off duty and off base, last 3 to 6 weeks.

my experince is with my brother-army, my uncle-army, and grandpa-airforce

I really like this. It has a truth that could never be explained jusst by...saying it. ...To me poetry is about saying.."hey this is whats true"..and u did hun ..thanks :)