As someone who still feels the scars from that awful day almost 25 years ago, Friday will be a little bit tough even under the best of conditions. But each year, it feels like the anniversary (which has always operated under a political shadow) becomes less a remembrance of what was lost and more a celebration of xenophobia and hate.
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@mattblaze Sadly, those attacks turned the U.S. into a different country. And I'm sure someone else will pop in with "the U.S. was always that country!" to which I say, settle down. Anyway, for the scifi nerds out there, the series Babylon 5 presciently captured a world power's slide into a militaristic, paranoid society many years before the terrorist attacks. Another thing that comes to mind for me is the sick crawling feeling I had the first time I hear Bush utter the word "homeland." It was like the future had opened up before me to see, and it was very, very dark.
@Nonya_Bidniss I remember the collective WTF in NYC when the rest of the country started co-opting the attacks to rattle their sabers, before we even knew what the body count was.
@mattblaze I also remember it, but I also think of the girls school bombed by the US not long ago, and the bombs that are still falling. We really are spoiled in this part of the world. I wish a lesson had been learned.
@CStamp My home city was attacked and I lost friends from lingering ground zero illness. Is your point that I shouldn't mourn them because the US also does really shitty things sometimes? I can't believe that's your point.
@mattblaze No, not at all. It just makes me sad that others are currently undergoing this same pain and heartache at the hands of the US, and not a one-off.
@CStamp Sure, but I think it's weird that you bring that up in the context of someone's personal feelings of loss.
@mattblaze Every year it gets harder to look at where that xenophobia and hate has gotten us and not wonder if they got what they wanted too.