what time was it on 9/11?
Sep. 11th, 2011 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anansi133Despite my urge to go be someplace to hold a candle up, all the people I know are trying to forget what say it is and think about something else. And I can certainly roll that way.
I remember now that the local Aug 6th event, Hiroshima to Hope, came from a tradition that didn't catch on until some time after that bombing. I expect this event to take a while to settle in.
One thing that ten year's time has done, it's given me some time to digest some of the unthinkable. I know why the videos of the jumpers looked so unconvincing to me at the time: they censored out the ones where the fallen were still pinwheeling on their way down.
And the suspicious part of the building 7 collapse? Usually, fires are not allowed to burn unchecked. Once they stopped fighting the fire in building 7, the collapse was inevitable. I can see now how fire by itself can cause a building to fall.
But, um, not bringing Bin laden in for trial? Shooting him in cold blood? That was an asshole move, America. Even Hitler's boys got a trial.
The bad guys won that day, and the good guys haven't shown up yet. I miss my American Dream.
I remember now that the local Aug 6th event, Hiroshima to Hope, came from a tradition that didn't catch on until some time after that bombing. I expect this event to take a while to settle in.
One thing that ten year's time has done, it's given me some time to digest some of the unthinkable. I know why the videos of the jumpers looked so unconvincing to me at the time: they censored out the ones where the fallen were still pinwheeling on their way down.
And the suspicious part of the building 7 collapse? Usually, fires are not allowed to burn unchecked. Once they stopped fighting the fire in building 7, the collapse was inevitable. I can see now how fire by itself can cause a building to fall.
But, um, not bringing Bin laden in for trial? Shooting him in cold blood? That was an asshole move, America. Even Hitler's boys got a trial.
The bad guys won that day, and the good guys haven't shown up yet. I miss my American Dream.
