Evidenly, the Federal Emergency Maganagement Agency (FEMA), in a brilliantly misguided attempt to be helpful, created a coloring book to help kids cope with scary events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Called “A Scary Thing Happened”, the book was originally created by a Minnesota crisis response team and was, until recently, available from the FEMA website.

Fortunately, The Smoking Gun has captured it before it disappeared forever. Including the full PDF

According to TSG:

The coloring book was created in 2003 for the Freeborn County Crisis Response Team and was illustrated by Marlys Jentoft, a 68-year-old grandmother of 10. In an interview, Jentoft, pictured above, told TSG she was unaware of the recent criticism of the coloring book, but would redo the drawings if asked. Jentoft, who volunteers for the Red Cross and church and crime victims groups, said that she did not give much thought to including the 9/11 images since, “I feel like it was happening in the world and kids saw it. It is life.”

via AnimalNY