Reflecting on Osama, Part I

Osama bin Laden is dead. There have been a wide range of reactions to this in the last few days, and later this week I'll post my own. Before I do, though, I was reminded of the mass email I sent to friends and family at the end of the day on 9/11. I was an RA in a freshman dorm at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on that day. My residents had be…