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| Lileks: "I couldnÂ’t answer that one. Not yet. SheÂ’s only seven." (buzz.mn) |
| 2007-09-11 |
| For my birthday my daughter gave me a deck of cards: Go Ask Dad. Each card has a question about what I liked when I was a kid, what I wanted to be, what music I liked. Every night we read a few cards. Last nightÂ’s question: what was the most important event that had taken place in my lifetime? I couldnÂ’t answer that one. Not yet. SheÂ’s only seven. I remember how still it was after the planes were grounded. When the airlines were grounded the jets came in one after the other over my house; then silence. Silence all day. I remember there was an election; canÂ’t recall what it was for, but off we went to the school to vote. I pushed the stroller up the block, sleepwalking. In the evening we went to the park, as always, and pushed our daughter in the swing. She laughed; she had a grand day. She was one year old. When the sun went down she had a bath and played with yellow rubber ducks and slept sweet untroubled sleep. I sat by the TV with a laptop and watched the news until 3 AM, and then there was nothing but the sound of the lone jet overhead, patrolling the dark. . . . He's soliciting "where were you" stories in the combox. Go over and contribute. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 Monsieur Katsaris Last time you came here you began counting Muslim and Christian genocides (putting Nazi and similar atheistic movements in The Christian side) except that in two minites I found hald a dozen Muslim genocides you "forgot". One of them the cleansing of Pontus Greeks around 1955. Just for that you deserve the collabo word. But in fact you are evan worse. You want to show how tolerant you are and wide minded you are by supporting a muderous ideology. But in fact jsut like the Vietnam-era protesters you couldn't care less about the people. They arte just toys for yopur little games. I do. I acre not only about the non-Muslims living living under Islamic opressionj but about also about Muslims. About the woman who is beaten and raped by her husband, about the boy who is brainwashed for becoming a suicide bomber, about the enslaved Blacks, about those who don't get decent instruction, about the Bengla-deshi servants and camel jockeys raped in Saudi Arabia, about those who die from polio because a lunatic has said vaccination was haram, about the misery and ignorance who accompany Islam wherever it goes. I want them free of it. The differtnce betwen you and me is that for me they are humans and for you they are just expendable toys. I would spit on you again but you would soil my saliva. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-09-11 17:54 |
| #2 I have to disagree. In our lives there is one event that transcends 9-11. In fact, it rivals World War II as the most important event of the 20th Century. It was the fall of the Soviet Union, thanks in large part to President Ronald Reagan. The War on Terror, the freeing of Afghanistan and Iraq, and 30 Million or more people are grand events as well. But they pale in comparison with the freeing of 1 Billion people with the fall of the Soviet Union. The ending of a 30 year threat that could have destroyed much of civilization. A hundred years from now, the War on Terror will be a minor story of the 21st Century. And the odds are great that it will be eclipsed before this century is out. But the history of the 20th Century, and in our lives, is set in stone. For it will be near impossible for an event to transcend the fall of the Soviet Union. It truly was the most important event that has taken place in our lifetimes, unless you were alive during World War II. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-09-11 10:07 |
| #1 i was on a job site with no radio ty anything didn't even know it was going on until the woman building the house pulled up crying and told us. needless too say we all took the rwst of the day off to watch the events unfold on television |
| Posted by: sinse 2007-09-11 07:20 |