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Sep. 12th, 2002 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
violachicMakes one think. Not just about what happened a year ago yesterday. But what happened before it, what has happened after, and what continues to happen. I guess I would think that such a tragedy would wake people up, make them really take a close look around them, around their world, across the earth. But it didn't. I'm going to say what I think freely. Its not like the FBI aren't already keeping tabs of my movements, I'm sure. (Actually, I'm jealous of Nathan Musselman- his FBI file is probably thousands of times thicker than anyone in my family) Some people say that I come across anti-American. That is not true. I guess I just have different aspirations for our country and for the world than some people. What happened 366 days ago will always grieve me to bounds of infinity. But it would grieve me just as much if it happened in Canada, England, Russia, Japan or Iraq.
If we don't understand WHY it happened, we will never be able to remedy it, no matter how many wars are fought, won, or lost.
So this week, I grieve for the 3,000 + people of many different races, nationalities, religions and colors that perished. But I also grieve for the rest of the world, for the survivors, and for the rest of America. I grieve for the thousands of civilians killed in Afghanistan. I grieve for the thousands of innocent civilians displaced by a war many of them probably don't understand.
Its like if you continually turned around and kicked someone in the nuts, and then were surprised when they eventually turned around and beat you to a bloody pulp. It wouldn't matter why you decided you were going to kick that guy in the nuts. And it WOULD matter that you were horribly injured, disfigured or even killed. It would still be a tragedy. Just an avoidable one.
So I grieve.
Word of the Day:
Kaddish- The traditional Hebrew prayer for the dead, said for one year after death.
And tomorrow we shall rejoice.
"And in the end
the love you take
is equal to the love
you make"
-The Beatles
If we don't understand WHY it happened, we will never be able to remedy it, no matter how many wars are fought, won, or lost.
So this week, I grieve for the 3,000 + people of many different races, nationalities, religions and colors that perished. But I also grieve for the rest of the world, for the survivors, and for the rest of America. I grieve for the thousands of civilians killed in Afghanistan. I grieve for the thousands of innocent civilians displaced by a war many of them probably don't understand.
Its like if you continually turned around and kicked someone in the nuts, and then were surprised when they eventually turned around and beat you to a bloody pulp. It wouldn't matter why you decided you were going to kick that guy in the nuts. And it WOULD matter that you were horribly injured, disfigured or even killed. It would still be a tragedy. Just an avoidable one.
So I grieve.
Word of the Day:
Kaddish- The traditional Hebrew prayer for the dead, said for one year after death.
And tomorrow we shall rejoice.
"And in the end
the love you take
is equal to the love
you make"
-The Beatles
