A community of rememberences
Below the fold are some of the other rememberences I found, heartfelt reactions and reflections to an atrocity. Many of them are taking part in the 2996 Project to memorialize each person who died on that day. (Unfortunately, the project home page link isn’t working as of this writing)
Reading through all these posts is like a cross section through each person’s reaction to grief, pain, and outrage. After 5 years, memories are still crisp, though we’ve had time to figure out how we feel about it. I withhold disagreements today; everyone can ascend the podium, tap the mike, and say what they want to say.
In carefully randomized order…
- Orac: September 11: Five years later
- SEB: 5 years since, and…
- Charming, Just Charming: Surviving
- I See Invisible People: 5 years ago today
- Buridan’s Ass: Path to 9/11
- Old And Evil: Monday, September 11, 2006
- Gran’s On-Bran: Satyagraha
- Unapologetically Neurotic: Five
- Lemons & Lollipops: 2996: Remembering Edmund M. McNally
- MorningGlory2: Ira Zaslow
- Mostly Cajun: 9/11
- Notes from the terminal ward: Flight 93 review and A slight 9/11 tirade
- Obnoxious Bitch: 9/11, Jesus the scene-stealer, and losing god(s)
- Dispatches from the culture wars: Remember the scapegoating
- ***Dave: Rember, Rember, 11 September
…and a couple links connecting dots from 9/11 to the Iraq war
- Dispatches from the culture wars: Rumsfeld’s astonishing judgment
- Socialist Swine: Senate Report regarding reasons for the Iraq war
When individuals write their real feelings and thoughts, it’s worth reading, but somehow I just couldn’t make myself watch any of the manufactured TV specials, or even any TV at all until the day had passed.