I know two people who volunteered to help clean up at the Twin Towers. One was an adventurer who had been all over the world, the other was a retired NYC pathologist. Both said the same thing in almost the exact same words, “we saw things that no one should ever have to see”, and they didn’t want to talk about it further.
Remember New York’s vicitms. But remember all the other victims whose lives have been destroyed by wars launched using the attack on the Twin Towers as a propaganda excuse. I shall do my remembrance standing on the stormy seashore. Not in front of a television.
Sometimes contributors here, Byron DeLear and John Wight, post their thoughts on the day that changed us all.
The memo President Bush received on August 6th, 2001Â begins:
President Bush’s response:
America’s Reichstag. Lose the flags, we’re starting to look like Nazi Germany.