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Karen James Tells Katie Couric Her Husband Kelly 'Loved Life So Much'
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- As a wife, I am sorry for Ms. James' loss. As a military spouse and a military mother, why is it a fallen soldier's mom and a fallen soldier's wife do not get the same lengthy in-depth interviews.
The soldiers are not challenged to climb a mountain, but challenged to defend their country and sacrifice their lives.
I will never understand the media's priorities in sensationalizing the accidental death of one man who was on a recreational vacation, when there are those who daily lay down their life for the sake of so many.
No greater love hath a man, than to lay down his life for another. - Reply to this comment
- As a wife, I am sorry for Ms. James' loss. As a military spouse and a military mother, why is it a fallen soldier's mom and a fallen soldier's wife do not get the same lengthy in-depth interviews.
The soldiers are not challenged to climb a mountain, but challenged to defend their country and sacrifice their lives.
I will never understand the media's priorities in sensationalizing the accidental death of one man who was on a recreational vacation, when there are those who daily lay down their life for the sake of so many.
No greater love hath a man, than to lay down his life for another. - Reply to this comment
- As a wife, I am sorry for Ms. James' loss. As a military spouse and a military mother, why is it a fallen soldier's mom and a fallen soldier's wife do not get the same lengthy in-depth interviews.
The soldiers are not challenged to climb a mountain, but challenged to defend their country and sacrifice their lives.
I will never understand the media's priorities in sensationalizing the accidental death of one man who was on a recreational vacation, when there are those who daily lay down their life for the sake of so many.
No greater love hath a man, than to lay down his life for another. - Reply to this comment
- As a wife, I am sorry for Ms. James' loss. As a military spouse and a military mother, why is it a fallen soldier's mom and a fallen soldier's wife do not get the same lengthy in-depth interviews.
The soldiers are not challenged to climb a mountain, but challenged to defend their country and sacrifice their lives.
I will never understand the media's priorities in sensationalizing the accidental death of one man who was on a recreational vacation, when there are those who daily lay down their life for the sake of so many.
No greater love hath a man, than to lay down his life for another. - Reply to this comment
- humancitizen: it's because the media adores pretty little white women and girls, "tragic teens" and ghastly stories like people falling off mountains because they didn't prepare, probably never saw snow before (one was from TEXAS) and made every mistake in the book. The media goes intruding into peoples lives like this and usually always reports
that the victim's family, or the accused person on bail, or the wife of a murdered cop "...did not immediately return our calls"
Like, what would they have to SAY to the media in the middle of the shock of having to identify the body of their murdered family member or whatever?
Oh yes, let me drop EVERYTHING to return the call to CBS news so they can get their inside STORY on how my husband was run over by a truck and how do I feel about it. - Reply to this comment
- Why is it CBS has to go interview the WIDOW of a dead climber now? is this another ratings game or whatever to keep these ghastly death stories going on and on and on for weeks? I mean what is the woman going to SAY that we all wouldn't expect someone to say about their dead spouse, and what kind of "story" can they tell beyound "I loved that man he was great to me and we had plans"??
What's next? a book? - Reply to this comment
- Karen,
Thank you! I am sorry for your loss. With time your wounds will heal. I'm glad you took the time to put closer on a very tragic event. I hope people will walk away from your story and feel thank full for their life, and the people that touch their hearts everyday. Be thankful! Your world could change in a heart beat. Again, I'm so sorry for your loss. - Reply to this comment
- Karen is absolutely right about one thing..
The last words that passed between my husband and myself were "I love you". I then left our local hospital to come home. I got a call a couple of hours later that they were air-lifting him out to Atlanta. By the time I got to Atlanta, he was dead. I never got to say "good-bye". But I will always know that we did leave on "I love you".
It is important to let those you love know it. You never know when they will be taken away from you. - Reply to this comment
- I, too, think this is one of the best interviews I have ever seen on TV. It is a story that I think is important and the widow obviously wanted to share it.
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- Katie:
Again you flocked to the family of a deceased person. While her's was an uplifting story, why do you keep intruding into the personal lives of people you don't even know? Why didn't you ask her if her husband died in vain like you did the mother of a fallen soldier? Do you not understand what motivates people other than money or fame? You get paid a bazillion bucks to stick a microphone in the face of a tragic figure...I don't understand you. How did you feel when your husband died? Stay out of their lives/ - Reply to this comment
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