Anniversary

[poliphilo]

I've just looked at the date.

Oh my- 9/11!

Why wasn't I apprised of this? Why weren't the papers full of commemorative stuff?

I guess because we've moved on. We have Iraq to worry about. Katrina has changed the paradigm just as the attack on the twin towers once did.

This is a fast-moving century.

We're packing more history into the available time than we ever did before.

Comments

Re: we are healed

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

Anybody who's been directly affected, as you were, has an absolute right--indeed, a necessity--to feel the wound, to grieve, to not be healed yet.

The rest of us... should shut the fuck up. You are entirely right that 9/11 has become a patriotic story used to beat freedom into the dirt.

Re: we are healed

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I sometimes think of the newly minted lawyers who were working at Kantor-Fitsgerald,who had graduated from SUCOL in May. The ones that were killed hadn't even worked there long enough to know if they'd passed the bar.