Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <m3fz5lzfdk.fsf.DeleteThis@invalid.address>, <joe.DeleteThis@invalid.address>
> wrote:
>
>>When it happened I gave up politics
>
> It actually politicized me rather dramatically.
>
> But there's no room for that on the anniversary of such a tragic loss.
>
> In March 2002 I was in Manhattan and walked to Ground Zero. I'll never
> be the same.
erWe had two cousins who worked in the towers that day. A friend from my
synagogue had a son who worked in the towers. My neighbour had a brother
who worked as a taxi driver in the area near the towers. My husband's
grad student had a father who worked in a business in the towers. A
professor from my husband's university in the same faculty was visiting
her brother who worked in the towers.
One cousin in another part of town that day.
The other cousin got out, got hit by some debris and was knocked out. He
was missing for a nearly 24 hours hours because he was unconscious and
had no id. His wife was five months pregnant at the time.
My neighbour's brother had two religious Jews in the back of his taxi
and he was dropping them off for a meeting when the plane hit. They were
running fifteen minutes behind because it was Elul, the Jewish month of
repentance and that meant fifteen minutes worth of extra prayers. The
impact knocked out his rear window, covering his passengers with glass
and giving them minor injuries but they drove away fast at the forefront
of the horror and were okay.
The son of my friend was across the street eating a crouissant. He was
among those who walked out of Manhattan. is mother didn't know if he was
dead or alive for eight hours until a stranger let him (and many others)
send an e-mail via a satellite computer.
The grad student's father was on a business trip in San Francisco. He
was the only member of his company to survive.
Dr. Christine Egan and her brother perished that day. He was on the
telephone talking to his wife and she was watching on TV when the tower
collapsed.
Michelle, when you daughter is old enough to understand, tell her her
birthday needs to be a day of joy for her, because living is what life
is about and she can best honor the dead by living with joy.
I was already pretty much a war mongering neocon zionist before 9-11.
Israel has the population equivalent of 9-11 at least once a year at the
hands of the Islamofacists so the horror of 9-11 was not a new thing for
me except that it wasn't Jews being targetted that day. The estimated
200 or so dead Jews for that day's terrorism were just incidentally Jews
as opposed to targetted just for being Jews.
Now I am a rabidly war mongering, neocon, zionist.
Judith
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