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the_gneechThat my most intense emotional reaction to the anniversary of Sept. 11 happens now, twenty minutes after it "officially" isn't Sept. 11 any more.
Time has a way of making you forget. All day today, I thought about it all in the abstract. But a few minutes ago, I had a very vivid memory, of a shot from a camera at ground level, pointed up at the second tower, and the belly of a plane coming out of nowhere and plowing into it.
It was a bright, blue, beautiful day. I was sitting on the floor crying my eyes out.
And people have the gall to be smarmy about it. Good God!
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bearblue has posted several links that I found worth reading, here. I have copied a couple of my favorites here:
"Seeing those images again made me outraged at those of us who chide others to get over it. I am stunned that anyone could ever look at the carnage on that footage (and I saw the whole damn thing with my actual eyes)--and somehow . . . not be changed. Get OVER IT? What? Are you out of your goddamned freaking mind? What is the MATTER with you?" -- Sheila Astray, That PBS Special
"And there is such a thing as righteous anger. And sometimes righteous anger is the only appropriate emotion. Everything else is just narcissism and dogma. I don’t recommend picking at scabs, not at all. But nor do I recommend hiding scars - or forgetting just who it was that wielded the knife." --Cold Fury, Blogiversary
"Terrorists commit their acts not for the benefit of the dead, but for those who remain alive. "Look at what we’ll do to you and yours," they say," if you don’t do what we want you to do." They revel in our horror. They rejoice in the sorrow of the families who will never bury the atomized bodies of their loved ones. They say, "yeah, we did it and we’ll do it to you unless you....submit." --Baldilocks, Fear Itself
"I’ve no doubt that if Seattle or Boston or Manhattan goes up in a bright white flash there will be those who blame it all on Bush. We squandered the world’s good will. We threw away the opportunity to atone, and lashed out. Really? You want to see lashing out? Imagine Kabul and Mecca and Baghdad and Tehran on 9/14 crowned with mushroom clouds: that’s lashing out. Imagine the President in the National Cathedral castigating Islam instead of sitting next to an Imam who's giving a homily. Mosques burned, oil fields occupied, smart bombs slamming into Syrian palaces. We could have gone full Roman on anyone we wanted, but we didn’t. And we won’t. Which is why this war will be long." -- Today's Lileks
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I apologize for being on edge today. I'll post something happy ... tomorrow. For now I'm going to go to sleep and hope I don't have any dreams.
-The Gneech
Time has a way of making you forget. All day today, I thought about it all in the abstract. But a few minutes ago, I had a very vivid memory, of a shot from a camera at ground level, pointed up at the second tower, and the belly of a plane coming out of nowhere and plowing into it.
It was a bright, blue, beautiful day. I was sitting on the floor crying my eyes out.
And people have the gall to be smarmy about it. Good God!
...
bearblue has posted several links that I found worth reading, here. I have copied a couple of my favorites here:"Seeing those images again made me outraged at those of us who chide others to get over it. I am stunned that anyone could ever look at the carnage on that footage (and I saw the whole damn thing with my actual eyes)--and somehow . . . not be changed. Get OVER IT? What? Are you out of your goddamned freaking mind? What is the MATTER with you?" -- Sheila Astray, That PBS Special
"And there is such a thing as righteous anger. And sometimes righteous anger is the only appropriate emotion. Everything else is just narcissism and dogma. I don’t recommend picking at scabs, not at all. But nor do I recommend hiding scars - or forgetting just who it was that wielded the knife." --Cold Fury, Blogiversary
"Terrorists commit their acts not for the benefit of the dead, but for those who remain alive. "Look at what we’ll do to you and yours," they say," if you don’t do what we want you to do." They revel in our horror. They rejoice in the sorrow of the families who will never bury the atomized bodies of their loved ones. They say, "yeah, we did it and we’ll do it to you unless you....submit." --Baldilocks, Fear Itself
"I’ve no doubt that if Seattle or Boston or Manhattan goes up in a bright white flash there will be those who blame it all on Bush. We squandered the world’s good will. We threw away the opportunity to atone, and lashed out. Really? You want to see lashing out? Imagine Kabul and Mecca and Baghdad and Tehran on 9/14 crowned with mushroom clouds: that’s lashing out. Imagine the President in the National Cathedral castigating Islam instead of sitting next to an Imam who's giving a homily. Mosques burned, oil fields occupied, smart bombs slamming into Syrian palaces. We could have gone full Roman on anyone we wanted, but we didn’t. And we won’t. Which is why this war will be long." -- Today's Lileks
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I apologize for being on edge today. I'll post something happy ... tomorrow. For now I'm going to go to sleep and hope I don't have any dreams.
-The Gneech
