~ With Recognition of those who died, survived, served and rescued, directly on three attack targets ~ From the moment of the 3 attacks, we looked to our leaders in natural and proper response to get through. Now, we need to survive the processes of what that the leadership became. We are still being victimized in the name of our own good. WE created this co-dependency in Post Tragedy, and WE never took ourselves back! When have WE ever allowed the long term stultification, obfuscation, and the being overly managed to continue ... without bucking back? Was it ... Prohibition? Women's Vote? Everything of 1960's? Civil War? Revolutionary War ... why are we still being such SHEEP 10 years past September 11, 2001?
Look back to the US integrity of The USofA, INSTEAD of a, "Them or Those". Look clearly! From airports to economy, nothing in our lives is the same as it was 10 years ago. National shame and fear replaced Pride and Dreams to aspire. We forgot how it was on the 10th of September, 2001.
A full decade (at all levels) of our government pulling the rug out from under our processes, and national, sensible wills into accepting powerlessness - has caused a New America of normalizing the numbness, memory loss, esteem and clarity. Symptoms include anger and stress combined with allowing LESS since 9/10/2001.
When did we stopped flinching at wrongness? As long as it is happening to someone else these days - no one will unplug themselves from self distractions to avoid seeing how divided things have become. My kid, who was 8 in 2001, came into his most formative years in a cycle of less and less. Less rights, less of everything. Seeing is believing that the system does not work, and WE like it that way, apparently. This is his "normal". We have become thoroughly trained to in-fight instead of UNITE. The terrorists did not win 10 years ago, we seem to have lost ourselves. That's no way to honor the lesson we can still learn, thus recover as survivors and remember our national spirit that lived strongly on September TENTH, 2001. Thus - my personal remembrance and mourning a decade's worth from 9/11/2001, represents the more devastating internal terrorism of America as who we are (who are WE?) as a nation, September 11, 2011. The worst attack is still rippling and it has marked a whole generation of children away from USA CAN DO - into - NO, NOT YOU.
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My 9/11/2001 Anniversary Mourning
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My Friend, Ken Hayward in Newfoundland wrote to me and wanted to comment: "They say 9/11 changed everything and they are right but it changed things for the worse. Since then, the US appears a much darker place than we remembered. During World War II, the US leased land and constructed bases in Newfoundland. When the war ended, some of the bases remained open but they eventually were all closed. As a sign of appreciation, some of the buildings were given away to be put to better use. I can say that my life was saved a number of times at the Janeway in St. John's, a former military building converted to the first childrens' hospital in my province. Jump ahead to the past few years and now there were concerns raised about St. John's being used by "black-op" planes landing here to refuel with detainees en route to or from the nations that allowed torture. Where is the US we knew prior to 9/11 and how long before it will (if it will) return?"
Ken - this is what I meant by my blog today. I continue to mourn 9/11/2001 not from the attacks, but what has become of my country. In the ensuing decade, much has been lost in the name of "freedom", our gov't doesn't even attempt to hide it's contempt of working for WE THE PEOPLE as our national Credo was constitutionality meant to protect. Both the RED and BLUE parties care more about careers and gains than they do for the will and sustenance of the United States citizenry. 2011 as Year 10 post 9/11 2001, IS a darker and poorer country than it was. The people ARE NOT DARK AND DISGUSTING - the government is out of balance by choice. That is evil and no one seems to be able to change it. IT WILL CHANGE. There is a 30 (or so) year span of sweeping upset that will change the American POV, and it is long over due. Openly battling party partisanship with willful destruction of economy and well being is NOT my country. I am saddened. And I love you for your comment, my friend.
We got our self-absorbed, clocks cleaned pretty good on 9/11/01. That day and subsequently, we have seen that our government is incapable of protecting us even with the intel that they had and was warned about for years about the access to the airline cockpits. Same with the levees in New Orleans, they were told by the Army Core Of Engineers that the levees were not secure enough and then that our government ignored certain segments of our own people (the poorest and/or the blackest) and that any day that could be us. These inactions have scared us. The terrorist did win *that* battle. The next topic is how much the government takes advantage of that fear and uses it to intimidate and control us.
Well said, Robin. That is indeed the next topic. And you nailed a lot of what people are frustrated with. "Oh, but the poor and minorities are NOT a target or ignored!" Ask anyone stuck in the Super Dome during Katrina. Hell, Katrina dumps are still laying in piles and rubble. We just don't see it on the news.
To do what is right seems to affect the well apportioned lining of better pockets than the voters. So, nothing has been done right for a few decades and largely wrong for the last 10 years where they are SO out in the open about it that people don't know what to do any longer. Until they can take no more. Then? I don't know, but it scares me that humans always have to let it get too far before sweeping change takes place. America is a young country. Maybe it will or won't last as such, but we should be able to do MUCH better. And I am no Pollyanna. I am a tired, angry, small woman - seeing less and less cost us more and more. And not cost of money alone.
I am pretty sure I can mark 9/11 on Sunday with no media interfering. It is in my heat and resonating the ashes in the present. Best I can do is pay honor in my heart and thank those who've been on the front lines ever since. God Bless America. No disagreeing that sentiment.
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