It’s the 7th 9/11 since 9/11. Some distraction from the Highway Africa conference. The wounds are still fresh. The scars still itch. I wasn’t there. I don’t know anybody that went down with the twin towers. I can’t lie that I can relate to the victims or their families, coz I have never experienced such tragedy. I just know that my heart broke and my mouth stayed wided open as CNN played the scenes live over and over, that day 6 years ago.
What I do know for sure, is that my heart breaks every time I see the news on TV of violence in Iraq. I have learnt that you can shed a tear ten times a day (that makes ten tears)…the sight of bleeding kids, men crying (the bad cry as Oprah calls it) over coffins of their loved ones, women numb from disbelief, a child clinging to his dead mother… I cry. I cry both the wet (the sniff and tears), the dry(broken heart) and the bad cry(the sniff and the tears, the broken heart and loud unpleasant sounds). After crying, I wonder-does the blood of about 3000 innocent people justify the blood of thousands more in Iraq (including 3700 US deaths in Iraq?). Does it?
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My first time here and I score them firsties…Yippee
Elvina, how are u?
9/11 is a day we’ll never forget. And our kids will do it under course unit called American history…the hunt for the badasses.
But seriously, glad to see u blogging. Lemme read the rest.
Or American History…the hunted becomes the badass!!!
Pity they discovered Jack Bauer after the terror attack..he’d have averted it.
Violence is never justified. Never. If I was not already all cried out, I’d weep with you.
But even the World Trade Centre wasn’t the beginning of the violence, it was just another step in an long series of consequences, death breeding death.
If only someone would have the courage to take a punch and keep his hands in his pockets and say,”It ends here.”
I am now going to listen to Sting singing History Will Teach Us Nothing.
“Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong
Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long
To blow up his children will only prove him right
History will teach us nothing.”