One the fifth anniversay of the 9/11 attacks, I thought I should repost this article on the Oklahoma City bombing. (Chutney is an OKC native and was there.)
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9/11, April-19
But April 19
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In that posting you say that the US met April 19 with grief, and resolution; did you mean to say that it met Sept 11 with grief and vengeance?
I wanted to write a post about this but just don’t feel up to it. Maybe tomorrow. I refuse to turn on my television to watch any of the documentaries, or commemoratives. People want to feel pity, and the media encourages this – but what does the media encourage people to do? It’s mostly just a wailing, self-congratulating disaster documentary. I don’t need to see this.
It’s not that I lack compassion. I am a native New Yorker; my grandmother used to work in the WTC. My cousin was transferred from there just a few weeks before the attacks. Another cousin attended school just blocks away. But I am sick of this.
Yes, and thanks.
It’s all about the spectacle of it.
Ze has a good 911 story: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/09/090706.html#
[…] In a recent comment to the “But April 19” repost, CP links us to this Ze Frank vidcast. A view asked Brooklyn-based Ze where he was on 9/11, and Ze tells it all. […]