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Five years...and nothing much has changed
Sep. 11th, 2006 07:57 amI was at work on the morning of September 11th, 2001. We worked through the chaos for an hour or two because we were finishing up a CD master for duplication. We had no way of knowing that all air traffic would be halted for days.
I followed the news with mounting dismay and fear, dimly feeling things shift and turn just out of sight, half-glimpsed terrible shapes moving in the shadows. Friends kept me up to date with instant messages and emails. A small TV my boss had brought in had us all mesmerized with every new image.
Eventually we realized that we were not going to get any work done and went home to be with our families.
I remember being struck by the enormity of it all when the highway traffic-advisory signs on I-75 southbound simply said "NATIONAL EMERGENCY: ALL AIR TRAFFIC HALTED". The highways and back roads were eerily quiet. Everyone else was already home with those they loved.
I don't know anyone in New York but nevertheless I grieve on this day for those who lost their lives in the Twin Towers attacks, in the Pentagon attack, and on the doomed Flight 93 (where the passengers fought back against the hijackers and earned at least a draw). I grieve even more over the fact that I live in a world where such things happen.
Much ink has been spilled over the subject of 9-11 but I believe this image is one of the most beautiful and poignant.
To all the innocents who lost their lives in this cowardly and misguided attack (I cannot say "all those", period, because I care less than nothing about the hijackers, who don't even deserve to be labeled with the "human" tag):
Requiescant in pace.
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[[The Oracle would like to know if you knew anyone who lost someone on 9/11.]]
I followed the news with mounting dismay and fear, dimly feeling things shift and turn just out of sight, half-glimpsed terrible shapes moving in the shadows. Friends kept me up to date with instant messages and emails. A small TV my boss had brought in had us all mesmerized with every new image.
Eventually we realized that we were not going to get any work done and went home to be with our families.
I remember being struck by the enormity of it all when the highway traffic-advisory signs on I-75 southbound simply said "NATIONAL EMERGENCY: ALL AIR TRAFFIC HALTED". The highways and back roads were eerily quiet. Everyone else was already home with those they loved.
I don't know anyone in New York but nevertheless I grieve on this day for those who lost their lives in the Twin Towers attacks, in the Pentagon attack, and on the doomed Flight 93 (where the passengers fought back against the hijackers and earned at least a draw). I grieve even more over the fact that I live in a world where such things happen.
Much ink has been spilled over the subject of 9-11 but I believe this image is one of the most beautiful and poignant.
To all the innocents who lost their lives in this cowardly and misguided attack (I cannot say "all those", period, because I care less than nothing about the hijackers, who don't even deserve to be labeled with the "human" tag):
Requiescant in pace.
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[[The Oracle would like to know if you knew anyone who lost someone on 9/11.]]