I am an American.

I read his today, it says what I feel about the medias coverage of these events, why give them the coverage, exposure, and make them the entire focus ..  focus on America on the GOOD not the bad. 
Kate

Thank you John Glen, for sharing your feelings and opinions, and helping the rest of us say  it too.

I don't want to know his name. I don't want to see his face. I don't want to know his life's history, his back-story, who his family is, where he went to school, or what he liked to do in his spare time. I don't want to know what "cause", if any, he was fighting for. I don't want to know why he did it, or may have done it, or what possessed him to carry out his actions. I don't want to know. Because that's what he really wants. I'll be damned if I'm going to give him what he wants.

Put him on trial, but don't cover it. Tell me when you decide to jail him for three lifetimes - because that number matters. That's the number of lives he has to now pay for. That's all I want to know about him. Nothing else.

Instead, tell me about the first responders who ran towards the fray, within seconds, fearless. Tell me about the ones wearing the yellow volunteer jacket, or the neon police vest, or even the ones in the regular everyday t-shirt who became a helper. Tell me the story about the first responder who held gauze over a wound until they made it to the hospital. Tell me the story about the volunteer who held the hand of the injured spectator until they got into the ambulance. In six months, tell me the story of those who lost a limb, who beat the odds, pulled through countless surgeries, and are learning to walk again. Tell me the story about the love, the compassion, and the never-ending support of thousands, millions, of people who support the victims here. Tell me their stories. Tell me everything you can, because they are the ones that matter. Tell me of the good that they have done, are doing, and will continue to do, regardless of... No, not regardless of, in spite of. In spite of that someone who would do them harm. Because that's what freedom in this country means. It means coming together in the hardest of times, even in the face of unfathomable adversity, to make life better for all those around us.

John Glen

Positive vs. Negitive...

  We have all heard that we learn from our mistakes, however I think its more important, and certainly more productive to learn from our successes, we feel better about ourselves, and are more willing to move forward, with conviction that we will succeed again and again. Simply learning from our mistakes tends to make us learn to keep making them.
  Mistakes are indeed a learning process, don't get me wrong, but when we focus on the negativity of our mistakes we don't move forward, and instead feel rejected, stupid, and useless for making those mistakes in the first place. So for every mistake we make, learn, move on and make a success out of it, a positive outcome. Feel good about ourselves, and keep moving forward.

Kate