--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Why on earth would she have risked it?? > > Peter, if anybody, should know that memory is > fallible, especially of stressful events. Even if > she hadn't been under sniper fire, it was a > dangerous situation. I think she "remembered" what > she--and everybody else involved--had been afraid > might happen. > > Ronald Reagan told similar stories about himself, > long before his mind had begun to deteriorate. > > I doubt any of us doesn't have some "memory" of > something that never happened. It's just that most > of us haven't had the events of our lives recorded > by press and cameras to remind us of the truth. > > I think we tend to fixate on such slips by public > figures to give ourselves a concrete excuse to > reject them when we have a visceral dislike for > them for which we have no rational basis. >
I find myself remembering recurring dreams as though they actually happened, and then realized that the details were entirely unrealistic, even surreal. I wouldn't doubt that she has had bad dreams about her and her daughter being under fire during that visit. Literally a nightmare scenario for a mother. Lawson
