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One Year After September 11
One year ago today, at 9:12 eastern, we posted
World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked amidst the events of that day. Since Slashdot is really just a discussion site, I felt the most appropriate way to handle this anniversary is to simply do just that. I hadn't read those stories since the day it happened, and I really am at a loss for words. But I'm sure many of you won't be. And thanks to OSDN for turning banner ads off for the day.
They just lowered the two flags outside my office window to half mast. The US flag and the NJ state flag. I didn't expect that. I just keep trying very hard not to cry, and that's making it harder. Technology seems very trivial this morning.
we speak the way we breathe --Fugazi
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Left the house this morning
Bells ringing filled the air
Wearin' the cross of my calling
On wheels of fire I come rollin' down here
Can't see nothin' in front of me
Can't see nothin' coming up behind
I make my way through this darkness
I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me
Lost track of how far I've gone
How far I've gone, how high I've climbed
On my back's a sixty pound stone
On my shoulder a half mile of line
There's spirits above and behind me
Faces gone black, eyes burnin' bright
May their precious blood bind me
Lord, as I stand before your fiery light
yeah, its nice to see /. editors endorsing karma whoring so blatantly isn't it.
One was an uncontrollable natural disaster.
The other was a deliberate act of evil and hatred formed and nurtured in the hearts and minds of our fellow men.
There's a difference. If you don't get it, then no amount of explaining will help.