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How to Make Tragedy Personal for Fun, Profit & Props

     Wasn't sure whether to post anything about it or not, but since I more or less did already elsewhere I guess it's appropriate:

     Was rather weird yesterday when our church (who normally isn't given to this, and to their credit didn't make it a political thing) highlighted the five-year anniversary 9/11 yesterday. But while the focus went squarely on Todd Beemer and this one chaplain being featured in an upcoming Christian flick, all I could think of were the two guys from West Milford, New Jersey (my hometown of the eight years prior to this past one) who WEREN'T highlighted, specifically Jeremy Glick (by all accounts the #2 guy in taking down Flight 93) and Fr. Michal Judge, who was chaplain for the NYFD.

     And that the weather yesterday morning in Loveland, Colorado was exactly like it was on 9/11/01 in New York -- cool, crisp, and still. (I worked maybe 15 miles from Ground Zero, bear in mind, and could see the smoldering hole quite clearly even from one of our "mountains" in West Milford.) 

     Needless to say, I've been noticing an awful lot of people elsewhere to be full of crap on this subject over the last several days. It's interesting to see that 9/11 posts on other boards have basically been falling squarely into one of two categories: Sloganeering jingoism (you can almost hear the Lee Greenwood CD being cued up), and "f*** the dead and the Bush I say they rode in on"....  and that I'm more than sick of both at this point.

     That's about it, I guess. Maybe back to some music next week, finally.

Posted by: burninglight at 16:21 | link | comments (1)

#1  11 September 2006 - 23:27

 

I've caught up with you now! It's good to reconnect with you sir!

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