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Floats carrying the New York Yankees baseball team make their way along Broadway during a ticker-tape parade celebrating their 27th World Series championship on Friday in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Question: Should New York have conducted the parade in light of the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Laughing on November 06 at 4:02 p.m.
Good question. I certainly do not pretend to know the answer to that question. I could ask other questions, however. Should anybody in the U.S. go out to dinner tonight or have a beer? Should anybody go to the LCHS-CHS game tonight, should it even be held? Should the U of I play their football game tomorrow? Far smarter people than I have to make those decisions.
Liz on November 07 at 10:55 a.m.
I guess the real question here is if there should EVER be a parade celebrating a Yankees victory. Whatever else may be going on in the world.
Escapee on November 08 at 9:46 p.m.
Well, baseball resumed in 2001 after the Twin Towers fell…I don’t really see anything wrong with the Yankee Parade; with all due respect, things like the Fort Hood Incident happen beyond our control…if we postponed everything because there was a disaster somewhere, we’d probably never celebrate anything anywhere anymore.