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elfsI've been reading my friends and some of them have despaired that nobody's mentioned 9/11 yet, and the few that have all says more or less the same thing: "Today is not the day for partisan rancour. Today is the day we remember."
I remember that we figured out who did it, and seven years ago he and his friends hid in the hills of Pakistan, and they're living there still.
I remember that gas was less than two dollars a gallon.
I remember we were sold a war that, among all the other reasons proposed by administration mouthpieces, "stabilizing the oil supply" was whispered now and then.
I remember that four thousand soldiers, good men and women, have died in a war for which the incidents of that day were merely an excuse.
I remember that there was a middle-eastern faction that didn't hate us so much then as they do now.
I remember that, seven years ago, I lost nobody to the flames.
I remember instead that day as the beginning of the end of my country as I had loved it. I live in a "new reality" now, one in which, citizen, you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, and have nothing to be ashamed of if you're good and law-abiding, citizen.
I remember living in America.
I remember that we figured out who did it, and seven years ago he and his friends hid in the hills of Pakistan, and they're living there still.
I remember that gas was less than two dollars a gallon.
I remember we were sold a war that, among all the other reasons proposed by administration mouthpieces, "stabilizing the oil supply" was whispered now and then.
I remember that four thousand soldiers, good men and women, have died in a war for which the incidents of that day were merely an excuse.
I remember that there was a middle-eastern faction that didn't hate us so much then as they do now.
I remember that, seven years ago, I lost nobody to the flames.
I remember instead that day as the beginning of the end of my country as I had loved it. I live in a "new reality" now, one in which, citizen, you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, and have nothing to be ashamed of if you're good and law-abiding, citizen.
I remember living in America.
