Does anyone else think it's too soon for this memorial service?

[marylanddem]

Seems like a few days might have given people a bit more time to grapple with these overwhelming events rather than being rushed into
"healing" before really going from shock into grieving...Just a thought.

[xultar]

1. I DO. OMG I was thinking the same thing. They should have had it

later in the week for sure.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. No. They're doing it so the kids can pay their respects and go home.

Most of the kids plan on leaving campus after the convocation.

[saracat]

3. I do. The names of all the dead haven't even been released for C***s's sake!

[marylanddem]

6. I think the impulse is

"let's get this behind us as fast as we can" and I'm not so sure
that's the best way to deal with the horrific circumstances...

[aquart]

4. Not Jewish, I take it?

[Bluebear]

5. Get what you're saying, but the students are leaving town now

[qanda]

7. I was thinking the same thing

I think it's too soon, but I think it helped for all the students to be together.

[Breeze54]

8. It wasn't a funeral but seems early to me too.

I had to look it up to see if it involves funerals.
I had no idea.

CONVOCATION:

http://www.answers.com/convocation?ff=1

Dictionary --

con·vo·ca·tion (kŏn'və-kā'shən) pronunciation
n.

1.
1. The act of convoking.
2. A group of people convoked, especially the members of a college or university community who are assembled for a ceremony.
2. A clerical assembly of the Anglican Church similar to a synod but assembling only when called.
3.
1. An assembly of the clergy and representative laity of a section of a diocese of the Episcopal Church.
2. The district represented at such an assembly.

convocational con'vo·ca'tion·al adj.


Thesaurus --

convocation

noun

1. A number of persons who have come or been gathered together: assemblage, assembly, body, company, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convention, crowd, gathering, group, meeting, muster, troop. Informal get-together. See collect/distribute.
2. A formal assemblage of the members of a group: assembly, conference, congress, convention, meeting. See assemble/disassemble.

It certainly seemed religious to me and like a memorial and a pep rally.
Not to mention political and somewhat military like.

[blues90]

9. It looked like a bush photo op to me .

Oh sure they added alot but it was far too soon for this and bush could have addressed this from the white house .

[soothsayer]

10. amazingly quick but agree that kids are leaving campus

[kestrel91316]

11. It's not a memorial, per say. More like a group prayer session. They

call it a convocation.

I don't have a problem with it.