Soaring Wings

A hostage drama took place in the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silversprings, Maryland. This to me is a reminisce of the hostage taking incident that took place in Manila, Philippines more than a week ago wherein a busload of Chinese nationals from Hong Kong were taken hostage by a dismissed police officer. In both cases, there were casualties. The hostage-taker in Maryland was shot by police, and the one in Manila, took eight hostages to the next life first, before being shot by the police. Similarly, both hostage takers made ridiculous demands of which there were no alternatives.