09-11-2024, 03:21 AM
I remember. And I am still angry.
September 11th, will figure in my mind, as a tragedy forever.
I am wondering about how for future generations, it will be a historical blip... a thing that they hear stories about... like the Holocaust and Pearl Harbor.
For me it's not just exemplars of evil intent, but as a social 'gut sucker-punch.' Something that was rightly, and squarely considered one of those "no one would ever do that!" things.
It seems to repeat in my life, as a thing which always calls me to become troubled and agitated - every year on its anniversary.
It is kind of weird, since I was not 'on the scene' as it happened... although I was closer than most. Even where I was, some 50 miles away, on Long Island, it felt like my very home had been attacked... I had several close friends who worked at the Pentagon at the time, so as the local news reported it too had been struck, my heart sank even further. I had just been talking with my wife about the Pentagon's "missing" trillions which had been publicly acknowledged... and then this happened.
I can't explain it. But the anniversary always brings me back to the monstrous extremes that some misguided souls will resort to, morality be damned.
I will always remember the smell in the air for days after the attack. That much steel and concrete turned to dust and carried around... My family were among those hopeful 'rescue' volunteers who suffered terrible respiratory damage, in the aftermath. They too, can't ever let it go.
But it will become a stale story for our grandchildren... I pray that is all it ever will be for them. The loss in lives was staggering, the damage to our nation was only just beginning... as the "response and reaction" caused further damage... as is usual when the "government" is involved. It was the 'crisis taken advantage of'... the first in my experience that was so egregious that it persisted well past the event. The media, CNN in particular, kept a continuous clip of the towers being struck and then later crumbling into their footprints... as if to deliberately keep the pain seething in the public. What followed was even more tragic considering what we were forced to surrender... and forced to endure.
Now, even the media doesn't commemorate the event. The politicians du jour want it not mentioned... The public is being led to forget it because "it's history... it doesn't matter today."
Oi... I didn't want to post another TLDR, so I'll leave it there...
I'm just sharing some ancient grief... grief that I seem unable to shake even now...
September 11th, will figure in my mind, as a tragedy forever.
I am wondering about how for future generations, it will be a historical blip... a thing that they hear stories about... like the Holocaust and Pearl Harbor.
For me it's not just exemplars of evil intent, but as a social 'gut sucker-punch.' Something that was rightly, and squarely considered one of those "no one would ever do that!" things.
It seems to repeat in my life, as a thing which always calls me to become troubled and agitated - every year on its anniversary.
It is kind of weird, since I was not 'on the scene' as it happened... although I was closer than most. Even where I was, some 50 miles away, on Long Island, it felt like my very home had been attacked... I had several close friends who worked at the Pentagon at the time, so as the local news reported it too had been struck, my heart sank even further. I had just been talking with my wife about the Pentagon's "missing" trillions which had been publicly acknowledged... and then this happened.
I can't explain it. But the anniversary always brings me back to the monstrous extremes that some misguided souls will resort to, morality be damned.
I will always remember the smell in the air for days after the attack. That much steel and concrete turned to dust and carried around... My family were among those hopeful 'rescue' volunteers who suffered terrible respiratory damage, in the aftermath. They too, can't ever let it go.
But it will become a stale story for our grandchildren... I pray that is all it ever will be for them. The loss in lives was staggering, the damage to our nation was only just beginning... as the "response and reaction" caused further damage... as is usual when the "government" is involved. It was the 'crisis taken advantage of'... the first in my experience that was so egregious that it persisted well past the event. The media, CNN in particular, kept a continuous clip of the towers being struck and then later crumbling into their footprints... as if to deliberately keep the pain seething in the public. What followed was even more tragic considering what we were forced to surrender... and forced to endure.
Now, even the media doesn't commemorate the event. The politicians du jour want it not mentioned... The public is being led to forget it because "it's history... it doesn't matter today."
Oi... I didn't want to post another TLDR, so I'll leave it there...
I'm just sharing some ancient grief... grief that I seem unable to shake even now...
