570News - Gary Doyle

One decade ago Princess Diana died in a tragic car crash in a Paris tunnel. A lot has happened since then, but that one moment is frozen in our collective memory. Add it to my personal list. When Diana died I was home with my wife and we were glued to CNN. I was on my way to work when the first of the Twin Towers was struck and was in the newsroom when the second plane went in. I was a disc jockey when Elvis died. I was in Grade One when JFK was killed. I remember when Bobby Kennedy was killed and when Martin Luther King Jr was killed. It was my birthday when David Koresh and the Branch Davidians met their maker and it was also my birthday when the Oklahoma City bombings took place. Which brings me to my point, and I do have one. I read a book while on holidays and I’ll paraphrase. A golf instructor took his student to the tenth tee and said “what do you see?” He said, water on the left, trees to the right and a bunker right in front of the green. The instructor then said “you completely missed the beauty.” “Don’t you see the lush fairway, the beautiful lake and all the flowers?” While we pause to remember tragedies that we’ve been witness to, don’t forget to enjoy all the good stuff that was created for our pleasure.