| Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| Remembering the day |
TVNewser has a great roundup of morning show coverage of the 9/11 five-year anniversary here, here, here and here (boy, do I miss Aaron Brown...)
Meanwhile, al-Qaida won't let us forget they're still standing. And it cannot be said enough, that on this somber day, our troops are fighting, being maimed, and dying in an out of control war that has nothing to do with the attacks on our country on this day in 2001.
I remember where I was when I heard about the first plane hitting the towers. My husband and I were still asleep, when my brother, who was visiting us from Denver, yells out "oh, shit!" We ran downstairs, to see the smoldering first Trade Tower. We all assumed, as did the television reporters, that it was an accident. Then the second plane hit, and there was no doubt. We watched the rest of the coverage stunned, witnessing what looked like nothing less than the start of World War III.
This morning, one of Jason's closest friends, Joe, who still lives in New York, called in to the radio show and recounted his front row seat to the strike of the second plane into the World Trade Center, which he witnessed from a picture window at his job in downtown Manhattan.
Truly, this was a dark day, both for what it did to the national psyche, and for the way it was used by our employees in government to empower themselves, and in so doing, to weaken us as a nation.
Tags: 9/11 |
posted by JReid @ 11:21 AM   |
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