False history about who attacked us means the Children of the Great Lie knowingly will submit to invasions of privacy and other post-constitutional, unnatural thievery of humans' inalienable rights, taken away by the Bush-Cheney era's ethos of evil that lingers long after, because the grown-ups did not rise up and demand common sense restoration of civil liberties and an end to american militarism as directed by world dominating elites.
I love this article made me cry <3
"Autumn Monday"? Last I checked Fall Equinox was 9/22.
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I enjoyed this article
I had never liked referring to the eleventh day of September or a certain series of events associated with that date by two of its numbers and a slash. I also never liked referring to the series of events simply by their calendar date without the year in any form (it's bad both for the calendar and society in general).
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My daughter turned 15 on that day. I always refer to her birthday as September the eleventh, never 9/11. She was born on a beautiful day in Seattle in 1986, that's how I chose to remember that day.
I'm frankly disturbed at the "spin" that's been put on 9/11 since it happened. It should not be a time to tease the wounds of that day. Nor should it be a day celebrating the lives the surviving relatives have lived since then. They lost relatives. We all lost a country, and a way of life.
Especially in these very dangerous times, when we are the victims of less subtle but equally dangerous attacks from everywhere, this should be a day to atone for our mistakes, for the arrogance of the institutions -- FBI, CIA, NSA and others -- that were supposed to protect us, and our own arrogance and naivete as a country.
We should reflect on these things, atone for them, and pledge that our pride should never again prevent us from understanding how others see us, or how we see ourselves.
Especially in these very dangerous times, when we are the victims of less subtle but equally dangerous attacks from everywhere, this should be a day to atone for our mistakes, for the arrogance of the institutions -- FBI, CIA, NSA and others -- that were supposed to protect us, and our own arrogance and naivete as a country.
We should reflect on these things, atone for them, and pledge that our pride should never again prevent us from understanding how others see us, or how we see ourselves.
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It may be a beautiful blue sky today. But it's not as beautiful a blue as it was on that day.
On that day, it was brilliant. Not a cloud to be seen.
We all know the rest.
We will never forget.
On that day, it was brilliant. Not a cloud to be seen.
We all know the rest.
We will never forget.
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I had relocated to SOCAL by the time 2001 come. Yes, I remember the very blue of the Manhattan skies, a beautiful Indian summer day. That was also my son's first day at kindergarten & it was his shortest.The children & their parents were all sent home & the school was closed for a period of time. My son, as other children, began building block towers with planes flying into them.
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I love to read about the people who perform services for us that we don't even know are being performed -- to wit, the cleaning of maps hundreds of years old. These people conserve our heritage. "Our" heritage, including mine, whose grandparents came to this country in the early 1900s, long after most of these maps were charted. Without history, we are rudderless.
Knowledgeable, meticulous, dedicated -- the conservators are not working for big bucks. Nor do they work at something that most people care about -- we can't keep people from trashing our subways, or apply themselves in school, let alone appreciate seemingly dull, solitary laboring.
Like scientists, who also toil knowing that far too many Americans resent their education and pooh-pooh their findings.
Knowledgeable, meticulous, dedicated -- the conservators are not working for big bucks. Nor do they work at something that most people care about -- we can't keep people from trashing our subways, or apply themselves in school, let alone appreciate seemingly dull, solitary laboring.
Like scientists, who also toil knowing that far too many Americans resent their education and pooh-pooh their findings.
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Whenever I look at the WTC site, I see it as more of a failure than a triumph. By not having back what was taken from us that day, the Twin Towers, we actually have allowed the terrorists to finish the job. Let's not forget how much just about how much every part costs making it all boondoggles when rebuilding the Twin Towers was found to be financially cheaper. I almost see this as placing a statue to Osama bin Laden himself and thanking him. Even worse, it costs so much to go to either the memorial or to the observation deck of that illegitimate replacement of a building, but I'm glad I got to see what it was like to see it online for free. Just recently, the sphere by Fritz Koening, which is the last surviving remnant of the original and true WTC, won't even by returned to the site, but rather on a nearby park across from it. My guess is that it placing it there would give a reminder of what stood there and would possibly make people think why the Twin Towers weren't just rebuilt should it ever be placed there. Despite the fight being over, I will still mention what really happened there. On a side note, the season for the Liberty is over as they lost to the Mystics yesterday, which once again shows that good regular season doesn't equal a good postseason. Also, they still get little to no coverage despite how good they have been this season making me feel that should they ever win a championship, it will most likely go unmentioned hence snubbing the fans.
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I cannot even imagine the pain of children who lost family and friends on 9/11. Ms. Colacio's documentary will, I hope, be to some degree cathartic for children who lost parents on 9/11.
Sixteen years ago, in Chicago, I watched 9/11 coverage on television.
I was 40, and had no intention of having children. 9/11 made me realize both the fragility, and the importance of family in ways I had not.
In November 2011, I became pregnant. My son is now fifteen.
Sixteen years ago, in Chicago, I watched 9/11 coverage on television.
I was 40, and had no intention of having children. 9/11 made me realize both the fragility, and the importance of family in ways I had not.
In November 2011, I became pregnant. My son is now fifteen.
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Wait, what? Fifteen but apparently born in 2012?
Thank you. My mistake and oversight: My son was born in August of 2002.
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A minor correction:
Based on the information given, the girl mentioned at the beginning of the article is 19 now, not 18.
Based on the information given, the girl mentioned at the beginning of the article is 19 now, not 18.
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Oval Park was funded, designed, and built by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1934 and 1937. During these years, at least as far as parks, playgrounds, and swimming pools were concerned, Moses was not so much "master builder" as "master supervisor" of tens of thousands of federal relief workers... not just construction workers either, but also architects, engineers, and everybody else who did the actual work. New York city would be far less green today if not for FDR's New Deal. For details search "bronx new deal" in Google.
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The WPA provided job training for unemployed youth, real life work experience, money to be spent in the community, infrastructure needed by the country. Maybe our current president, after a campaign filled with promises of improvement in our lives, could learn a lesson from the WPA...
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Let's also remember the artwork
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And the writers (The WPA Guide to NYC), the oral histories collected and the folk songs recorded for the first time....The WPA was a wonderful idea (even if it was unconstitutional).
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