Sorry for the grim British humour/humor. But that's how we cope with these situations.
Before I'm flamed for making light of a person's death, celebrating in the streets, or cheering/jeering at the blood price of a military mission, let me be quite clear that my emotions have not changed.
The best expression of the mixture of grief and relief I felt was put by a former Navy Seal commander who was only a kilometre away from Bin Laden when he slipped through the next at Tora Bora.
On Sunday night his wife saw he had teared up:
“Tears of pain or tears of joy?” she asked.
“Yes,” I said.