# On Bin Laden's Death

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 3, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bin-ladens-death/580544 "2011-05-03T03:58:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-bin-ladens-death/580544/23 "2011-05-03T15:09:56Z")

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> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#):
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> How did you hear that America’s evilest enemy, Osama Bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs and what were your reactions to it?
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> Personally I heard it on the side while my grandmother was watching TV and immeidately I began checking all the online news sources. Then as it became apparent, I was ecstatic and hugging myself in glee. I began singing “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and I think today it even gave me some adrenaline in PE.

But..I thought rejoicing in someone else’s death was wrong?

> [@Christian propoganda author dies in car accident -- grieve, or celebrate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-propoganda-author-dies-in-car-accident-grieve-or-celebrate/580163/36):
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> Yes a member of the human species has died, regardless of who or what he was, it is a tragedy, for we are all God’s children.

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