Congresswoman shot in head

[Alex]

I'll admit that I find the entire idea of a mass gathering to allow for the public display of grieving by people who (mostly) didn't know any of the people being grieved to be an odd construct.

But since I seem to be alone in that I just assume that is my brokenness and odd relationship with death. So to me the standing ovations (I was watching at the gym with the sound off) didn't seem to stretch that much. it wasn't until I heard soundbites this morning that I realized just how much clapping there was. Did notice that from his pacing at least Obama's speech didn't seem to have been written with the expectation of there being applause lines.