I keep hearing "get over it" applied to this day. I'm sick (yes, actually nauseated at times) and tired of television using 9/11 for ratings and the administration and other politicians using it for their own agenda (like, say, having the Republican convention in NYC just before the third anniversary).
However, I still have nightmares from standing and watching WTC through my office window. It still hurts, an actual ache. There are people still getting pieces of loved ones sent to them...if they're lucky. This isn't something everyone can behind them; some have to live with it all the time, get hit with memories at unexpected moments.
What I think most everyone would like it the exploitation of the event to stop. Enough of the flag-waving and banners and news logos.
Whether everyone puts the event behind them is another thing entirely.
I'm one of those people most people hate: I prefer NYC to every other spot I've been. I love the beauty of the remains of rural New England (especially the mountainy parts) and the older sections of PA which haven't been torn down for those hideous starter-castle developments and the hot easy Savannah, but when I think of places I want to live, NYC's at the top.
However, second on my list is Madison, Wisconsin. I love that town. It's a most American place: urban and rural and suburban, liberal and conservative and everything in between, all represented in this state capital/college town. (Favorite: the farmer's market around the capital building hill. Best cheese curd ever!) Increadibly welcoming people, even when they knew I was from NYC. Also, adorable accent.
Not that anyone particularly cares, but I thought I'd put in my two worthless cents.
My family gets the NYT delivered. This photo was featured either on the front page or on the front of the "Nation at War" section. I was rather disturbed by it. Though I'm sure the soldiers are exhausted and deserve a break, it made me think of nothing so mush as a conquering army. It projected an image of America taking over Saddam's position in Iraq and behaving just as oppressively, rather than the coallition coming to free Iraqis from a sadistic oppressor. Perhaps I am being oversentitive, but the image bothered me nonetheless.
"...a few backwards states like Massachusetts..."
Massachusetts. Backwards.
Huh.
I thought the young girl in the fourth linked photograph was so lovely I felt the need to post a comment stating as much. I've seen so many videos and photographs of the peoples of Iraq and there have been so very many striking faces, if not breathtakingly beautiful. Not to say that ugly people don't deserve freedom from oppression and violence, but these faces of the people of Iraq have been prominent in my mind. Makes me want to go there and bring my camera. So many fascinating faces.
I've noticed of late that many of their satirical news reports come true eventually. In a portion of Bush's "get out in 48 hours...or else!" speech last week, the White House speech writers almost directly quoted an article from The Onion from the week before. It was completely bizzare. I considered laughing, but I couldn't because I realized the policies and rhetoric of those who currently run our government are a horrible, horrible joke. There's something that'll knock the breath out of you.
(I still hold that the post-September 11th Onion was the best one ever printed.)
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