Patricia Heaton’s Cry for US Tribute to Terror Victims, Echoing France’s Solemn Homage to Hers
What Patricia Heaton is effectively doing here is shaking the complacent out of their indifference, using the arguable power of her Hollywood notoriety. The real perpetrators the actress calls out are not the terrorists, they’re us – the onlookers – who sit idly by as our brethren fall victim to unchecked, all-consuming violence. For Heaton, it is our duty to validate the terror victims, the phantom mere spectators in the chilling theater of injustice, by acknowledging and commemorating their life and tragic end. It’s a call to patriotic duty to uplift and fortify our shared humanity against the insidiousness of terror.