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[camwyn]

Locked front door behind me: 6:36 AM. Arrived bus stop: 6:40 AM. Bus hits Port Authority: 7:01ish. Arrived pavement in front of Port Authority: 7:04. Arrived work: 7:18.

Anyone keeps me from leaving this place @ 4:30 I am kicking them someplace painful.

At least it's quiet.

I don't have any real thoughts or meditations on the anniversary today, except that headlines like LEST WE FORGET make me a bit grumpy. Then again, given how fast what happened eight years ago was seized on as an excuse to go to war with anybody even tangentially connected, my overall reaction to the day has been to treat it as just another goddamn work day, damn it. All I'm gonna say is that when I visited the Vietnam War Memorial for the first time I felt a bit odd because I had no name to look up, unlike so many other visitors. When I first encountered the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, however, it was sometime around 2003 or so, and this time I had a name, so: Good bless you, Port Authority Police Inspector Anthony Infante, and all those you left behind.

Will that do? Am I done now?

Comments

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think, especially, that everyone who was in the greater New York area gets a break, because they did it the first time, some of them very much up close and in person.

I have a friend who was late to work in 2001 and is the only person left alive from his office. September 11 is also his birthday, along with a lot of other people (to say nothing of wedding anniversaries and so on). We should, you know, possibly just lighten up on the wallowing, and let them have their day back. Perhaps we could instead make this a national day for public officials to ask themselves "What have I missed? Have I overlooked something really important? What could I do better?"

[gramarye1971]

Perhaps we could instead make this a national day for public officials to ask themselves "What have I missed? Have I overlooked something really important? What could I do better?"

Public officials especially, but I think everyone could benefit from a day like this.

[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to celebrate today as a "screw you" to Al-Qaida, because every time we suffer through this anniversary, they are rewarded again for murdering all those people. As someone once said, "The best revenge is living well."

[lwood.livejournal.com]

How would you do that? Bacon?

camwyn: Yes.

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I totally forgot about the significance of this date until I read this entry. But that's mostly because my brain still thinks it's August.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

You too, huh? My mental calendar insists that it is August 42nd.

My main clue that it is in fact no longer August is that the weather is going back to standard coolish-and-rainy, which is somewhat disheartening. But it's still rather jarring when my sister makes reference to school-things.