It will never be distant history for me.
For me, it is as yesterday. And my anger still burns.
All those hours waiting to hear if two of my homeschool fathers were still alive. Phone services of all types were in a knot, and the wait seemed endless. Both of these men were unharmed, but one had a very close call: he was supposed to be in one of the Pentagon rooms directly hit that horrible morning. Thank God that he was called away to Capitol Hill a mere fifteen minutes before American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon.
And who can forget watching live the collapse of the Twin Towers after being struck by American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175?
And there were those long minutes awaiting the location of United Airlines Flight 93. Thank God for the patriots aboard that flight.
Yes, eighteen years is a long time ago.
But not for me.
And I will never buy into the whitewash of Islam.
I won't forget the terrible loss of life on that day. I also won't forget that America died in other ways that day as well - with the evisceration of the 4th Amendment under the horribly named "Patriot Act" and the generational wars in the Middle East...claiming even more American lives.
ReplyDeleteThe "war on terrorism" has gone as well as the "war on drugs"......
I pray I am wrong, but as I said at Franco's, future history books will record 9/11 2001 was the beginning of the end of the American experiment.
DeleteThat's an apt way to sum it up. I also hope your wrong...but the evidence would so far, indicate otherwise.
DeleteWe've already spent 19 years in a quagmire orchestrated by OBL.
CI,
DeleteA military and financial quagmire.
One of OBL's goals was to bankrupt the West. Slowly, slowly, that may be happening as we take ever more steps to remain safe.
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DeleteFreedom of religion means FREEDOM OF RELIGION. You Frankie ole boy do NOT get to pick your preferred definition.
DeleteQuite true RN, the Founders own words refute the deranged, anti-American screed above.
DeleteBut at least he's walking back his "final solution".....
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ReplyDeleteFranco,
DeleteYou have captured some of the horror of that day.
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ReplyDeleteAgree. Same applies to non religious folks.
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ReplyDeleteAmen AOW! Sept 11....Bless you my friend! xoxox
ReplyDeleteOne day, perhaps in a distant future, mankind will have learned a better way. A day when pride no longer stands in the way of pure reason.
ReplyDeleteUntil that day arrives humankind will remain doomed by our very nature.
I wouldn't expect YOU to have a clue Schlappy Patsy.
DeleteI hope that all here will take the time to look at today's post at Woman Honor Thyself.
ReplyDeleteWORTH YOUR TIME!
It's a righteous anger and I share the feeling.
ReplyDeleteOur city burnt. Our neighbors incinerated.
DeleteWhy
For some sick branding strategy
No attack can derail this nation
If we are to fall it is because of us
The bs conspiracy talk.
The rationalization and excuses
Our country Our Values Our. Communities
No exuses. No rationalization
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DeleteJason,
DeleteMy good friend! I'm so glad you stopped by!
I hope that you are well.
Thank you for saying that my anger is a righteous anger. Over the 18 years, a lot of people have been trying to get me to shrug it off.
Beak,
DeleteWell said!
Jason is a fellow NYC person
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DeleteWe should have nuked Mecca on a holiday and got this thing started.
ReplyDeleteWhat, blasted the meteorite into the nothing from which it came? Good call.
DeleteThe "whitewash of Islam." Well said and consider, the pedo warlord prophet claimed he'd been talking with Gabriel. Or was it another angel?
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DeleteMTP himself questioned whether or not he was hearing Gabriel or an angel of the devil.
Interesting line in the Koran (paraphrase): "Thus saith Allah, I am the great deceiver." Just an FYI.
as in 3:54 ? The word you have translated as "deceiver" (l-makirina) has other connotations... http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=mkr#(3:54:6)
DeleteJez,
DeleteStill, the concept of Allah being a scheming deceiver, a lying planner is in the Quran.
i dunno, we'd have to dealve deeper into the arabic. Shamoun's reasoning looks fairly motivated.
DeleteThe Problem is Us
ReplyDeleteYou dont want to blame all Muslims. Yet there needs to be an adult conversation. The problem is the second you talk Ducky types spin. In truth the Duck doesn’t care about Palestinians. If he did he would be talking about mindless terror and unrealistic demands.
Do note Paalestinians celebrated 9-11. The PA immediately did damage control and stopped Reporters from showing the full extent. Even when Bin Ladden was killed Americans did not behave like this.
I heard this (Auden) recently on the radio... his September was 1939, but much of it applies directly to the one in 2001.
ReplyDeleteI sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
"I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,"
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the deaf,
Who can speak for the dumb?
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
I've been carrying that phrase "the folded lie" around with me for days.
so speaks a perfect and holy child of god.
DeleteYou should read George Orwell's "Inside the Whale" for a liberal critique of Auden and "other" such writer's of "purpose". It's why we have so much "fake news" today.
ReplyDeleteIt is a ‘folded lie’ in the sense that Auden refers, in part, to a newspaper, to the words ‘lying’ stagnantly upon a page, preaching anti-German sentiment rather than encouraging self-scrutiny (forcing us to reflect on how our cruelty upon the Germans drove them to elect a vile ‘psychopathic god’).
Deletebtw - "what occurred at Linz" (Hitler's boyhood town)
DeleteTrump is WHY we have so much fake news today. He lies like a rug.
DeleteThose to whom evil is done
DeleteDo evil in return.
Amen
Thanks, I expect I'll enjoy inside the whale.
DeleteBut I interpret "the folded lie" differently (although I accept that the newspaper metaphor works brilliantly) -- i see it as our deeply subliminal unspocken mythologies, lies we've forgotten even exist, lies that so much of our identity is bound up with that they are painful to unfold and read, or even acknowledge.