I’m just seeing the September strips here now for the first time, and I’m grateful for the comments. Maybe no one will see mine, but …
As one who trudged out of Lower Manhattan on 9/11/01 covered with ash, and who had no TV until Feb.2002 (because all broadcast transmission was from WTC Tower 1), I don’t have the image of the planes hitting the towers myself, davidf42. At the scene, not even the fire or the collapse could be seen because the air was too thick with debris and dust.
It’s the feelings I remember. The solidarity in the City, and the support of the nation and the world, choke me up still. Any fire truck that goes by could be a gift from some town that offered a replacement for one of the 125 or so that we lost, and nobody who’s seen a fire truck flattened to two feet high can ever forget how much those gifts mean.
And yes, pschearer, the world is full of moderate Muslims, who outnumber the violent radicals just as moderate Christians outnumber those who shoot gynecologists or howl hate at military funerals. A large percentage of the small businesses in my Brooklyn neighborhood are run by Syrians, Yemenis, Pakistanis and other Muslims - they make great Americans.
So I guess I don’t go by the images on TV, either in remembering 9/11 or in judging the entire religion that supposedly perpetrated it. I say, God Bless the whole world - no exceptions! We all need it.
I’m just seeing the September strips here now for the first time, and I’m grateful for the comments. Maybe no one will see mine, but …
As one who trudged out of Lower Manhattan on 9/11/01 covered with ash, and who had no TV until Feb.2002 (because all broadcast transmission was from WTC Tower 1), I don’t have the image of the planes hitting the towers myself, davidf42. At the scene, not even the fire or the collapse could be seen because the air was too thick with debris and dust.
It’s the feelings I remember. The solidarity in the City, and the support of the nation and the world, choke me up still. Any fire truck that goes by could be a gift from some town that offered a replacement for one of the 125 or so that we lost, and nobody who’s seen a fire truck flattened to two feet high can ever forget how much those gifts mean.
And yes, pschearer, the world is full of moderate Muslims, who outnumber the violent radicals just as moderate Christians outnumber those who shoot gynecologists or howl hate at military funerals. A large percentage of the small businesses in my Brooklyn neighborhood are run by Syrians, Yemenis, Pakistanis and other Muslims - they make great Americans.
So I guess I don’t go by the images on TV, either in remembering 9/11 or in judging the entire religion that supposedly perpetrated it. I say, God Bless the whole world - no exceptions! We all need it.