Comedy or Tragedy, How Do You View Life?

For comedian Stephen Colbert, the date September 11th carries even deeper significance than it does for most Americans of his generation. On that day, when Colbert was ten years old, Eastern Airlines Flight 212 crashed into a muddy cornfield outside of Charlotte, NC, skidding for hundreds of feet before bursting into flames. 72 of the 82 passengers died, including Colbert’s father and two of his older brothers.The tragedy marked Colbert, and as a child he internalized the pain of the experien...