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9/11, April-19, okc, ze-frank
9/11 survivors: Something to look forward to now (from an OKC native)
09.13.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on 9/11 survivors: Something to look forward to now (from an OKC native)In a recent comment to the “But April 19” re-post, 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. I was just a few miles away from the Murrah building the morning of April 19, and that next year I moved […]
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9/11, April-19
But April 19
09.11.06 | Permalink | 6 CommentsOne 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, terrorism
One million ways to die
Finally, the color-coded terror alert system is useful for something: A ranking of your odds of death by appendicitis versus death by al-Qaida.
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9/11, April-19
But April 19
09.11.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIt is difficult for this Oklahoma City native to swallow September 11 exceptionalism. September 11 is a tragedy, but it is a tragedy proportionate to April 19. The differences in scope, method, and impact are proportionate to the differences between New York City’s and Oklahoma City’s size, scope and impact. One a geopolitical scale, one […]
