I’ve written before about “9-11” and where I was and how I felt.
It’s also Sen. Daniel Akaka’s birthday, and Harry Connick, Jr’s, and Amy Madigan’s and Virginia Madsen’s. It’s the birth anniversary of Coaches Paul “Bear” Bryant and Tom Landry, and of William S. Porter (“O. Henry”).
In 1822 the College of Cardinals lifted the Church’s ban on saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not vice versa.
It’s the anniversary of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857.
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The attack by Al Qaeda on the United States in 2001 was a hell of thing no doubt. It didn’t mark the beginning of time and it wasn’t the end of time, but it was a hell of a thing.
People say that we need to remember “9-11.” I’m not sure what that means to people. I am mindful that Al Qaeda is still a functioning international crime syndicate and that Osama bin Laden still goes unpunished.
There’s a lot of furor about a mosque or whatever being established near “Ground Zero.” What does “near” mean? When the Towers fell, did the rubble land on this place? I can see the moon from my apartment; is 236,000 miles too close? Why does it even matter? I suspect that bin Laden is to mainstream Islam as Fred Phelps and Terry Jones are to mainstream Christianity. (Perhaps we could get them all a room…)
There’s a guy in San Francisco, Jim Taylor, who wants to make September 11th National Civil Discourse Day. Good luck with that.
As usual, you said it sooooo well!
Indeed!!!!! As usual, you are absolutely right!!!!
Lately I’ve been thinking that our country has become a strange parody of a country and not the real thing anymore. I wish our leaders and pundits would quell the misguided passions rather than stir them. I wish more people sounded like this post you’ve written.
I agree with Robin on this one… the “ground zero” (who named it that?) controversy is a good example of stirring the pot. It is a manufactured symbolic controversy designed to take our attention from the real issues which affect real everyday people.