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There's a generation of folks who weren't born when this happened. it's important they know. I've done only words this year.
ReplyDeleteThe morning that happened, I was sitting on the couch. I didn't have to be at work until 4pm. The radio had come on and I was listening to it, as normal, when the news team broke in with a feed from a NY station. I then turned on the tv to watch. The unthinkable had happened. I started to cry thinking about all of the people who were killed in that whole situation and others who would be harmed by it, eventually.
ReplyDeleteA very sad day when many heroes emerged from "normal people" to help others, even if it might result in them losing their own lives in the process. This nation has not been the same since then! That was the first time we really understood how vulnerable our "economic engine" and "military command' entities were, or could be. AND how easy it might be to compromise the then-current systems, as advanced as they might have been at the time.
It happen the same day and time I lost my job as a teacher in a sad manner.
ReplyDeleteIF Americans could put themselves in the place of Ukrainians who are experiencing a 9/11 EACH day since Febr, 2022.
To me it shows how the Americans in charge of the safety in USA weren't ready or aware of the real danger coming from those Islamic extremists. The same rage against America than the kamikaze of WWII Japaneese.
Yes a very sad day but it could be sader after the 2024 election IF your dempocracy is put down by all those Retrumplkkkan thugs.
Pat - Words are better than nothing.
ReplyDeleteCdadbr - I cried that day, too.
JiEL - You are very correct.
Scott from Massachusetts said...
ReplyDeleteJust like everyone else, it's etched in my mind where I was and what I was doing on that horrific day. Also till this day, I shake my head in disbelief.
I can't explain exactly why, but the pic of the little boy brings much sadness to me.
Scott - I wonder if that kid remembers that day.
ReplyDeleteIt was an inside job. If you don't believe it, you should be voting for Donald Trump. the lives lost are referred to as "acceptable loss" The evidence is astonishing.
ReplyDelete...like Marilyn killed herself with an overdose and Princess Diana was "accidentally" killed in an auto crash.. JFK, RFK, even Dag Hammarskjöld in the 1960s ...If they want you dead, you're dead.
There is little reason for us to expect our children to remember that day. The best that we can hope for is to teach them about why it happened, how it happened, and what we can do about it in the future.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise we'll get bull-shit conspiracy theorists spouting shit after shit after shit. Right Uncle Vic?
And how many responders died in either the short or long term because of exposure to toxins? The Bush admin banned the EPA from releasing any info and no subsequent president reversed that. Talk about a conspiracy of silence.
ReplyDeleteI was a chimney sweep when this happened. I remember reading the NYT and looking at the photos of all of the first responders searching the rubble. I was honest to god, shocked that no one, and I mean no one in the photos was wearing protective breathing devices. Not a respirator in sight.
ReplyDeletePlease tell me "They didn't know..."
Uncle Vic - Dear, you are wrong.
ReplyDeleteLeftField - Yeah, they should have known better.
Dear, you are deleted.
ReplyDeleteBye Felisha.
ReplyDeleteSheesh. Lighten up Vic
I think we can all remember what we were doing when we heard and saw the news.
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