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Sep. 11th, 2007
Six years (cont)
Sep. 11th, 2007 08:47 amIt is 9:15am. My mind slowly drifts back into consiousness as the radio starts to report the attacks. I sleepily ignore the first report earlier but at 9:15 am I hear the Pentagon was hit.. and latch on.
I'm awake. I need to get up and find out what's going on.
Upstairs, the main TV is going. Mom and I are glued to it for a few hours. I eventually get breakfast and go back downstairs to watch and get online.
Slashdot is up, and has coverage, a break from it's usual stream of geek news. CNN is breaking down. MSNBC is down. Fox News is down. Google is up. Sites auditing who's here and who's not pop up. Furs go to one site to say if they're ok or not. Altarskunk, who I remember went into the military as a chaplain, is overseas. I send word that I'm away from all the carnage and am ok.
Travel by air is suspended in the US. Some folks are caught as the entire goverment machine meshes together and starts picking up the pieces. Others run to Amtrak as alternatives. New York is half-shut down for at least a week. Furs are delayed or are forced to stay until air travel can resume.
Things never be the same again.
I'm awake. I need to get up and find out what's going on.
Upstairs, the main TV is going. Mom and I are glued to it for a few hours. I eventually get breakfast and go back downstairs to watch and get online.
Slashdot is up, and has coverage, a break from it's usual stream of geek news. CNN is breaking down. MSNBC is down. Fox News is down. Google is up. Sites auditing who's here and who's not pop up. Furs go to one site to say if they're ok or not. Altarskunk, who I remember went into the military as a chaplain, is overseas. I send word that I'm away from all the carnage and am ok.
Travel by air is suspended in the US. Some folks are caught as the entire goverment machine meshes together and starts picking up the pieces. Others run to Amtrak as alternatives. New York is half-shut down for at least a week. Furs are delayed or are forced to stay until air travel can resume.
Things never be the same again.
Six years (more)
Sep. 11th, 2007 09:55 amWeeks afterwards, things slowly settled down locally.
Travel resumed except to Regan National, which diverted to Dulles or BWI. Thankfully bus and train service was able to finish the last leg of the journey.
National 24-hour news eventually gave way to regular programming. VH1, which went into "calm and inspire" mode, switched back after a few weeks. The funny came back as everyone feeled their way into the some resemblance of normalcy.
Airlines were hit the hardest, some failing out-right, some continuing to struggle. Others suffered as well, some moving out of New York, the stock market closed for a while.
But some things didn't change for the better. President Bush wanted war, and he got it. Anything further was gravy, and it continues to be very bitter... and it makes me now question the order placed and how it was cooked.
Travel resumed except to Regan National, which diverted to Dulles or BWI. Thankfully bus and train service was able to finish the last leg of the journey.
National 24-hour news eventually gave way to regular programming. VH1, which went into "calm and inspire" mode, switched back after a few weeks. The funny came back as everyone feeled their way into the some resemblance of normalcy.
Airlines were hit the hardest, some failing out-right, some continuing to struggle. Others suffered as well, some moving out of New York, the stock market closed for a while.
But some things didn't change for the better. President Bush wanted war, and he got it. Anything further was gravy, and it continues to be very bitter... and it makes me now question the order placed and how it was cooked.
Six years.
Supposedly it was Al Quada, as evidence points to them. Their head man is Osama Bin Laden, and we're supposedly looking for him and them in Aftganistan.
Remember Aftganistan?
We had good reason to be there.
We have no reason to be in Iraq. So why are we there too when we need to be in Aftganistan? Why are we continuing to rattle sabers in Iran's direction, when the problems we foresee will not come into being for another, what, four years at least? One country at a time!!!
And yet the domestic side suffers, for funding for the war is comming out of every other program. Excuse me, we're in a war. We run deficits in a war -- you don't balance a budget when you're trying to win it. An army needs as much cash as you can get, and then some, but you don't cut out support of your own people to do it!
I cannot wait for whoever comes into the Presidency in, what, under two years' time? He or she will need to clean up the mess made.
I'm going to avoid the news today. It'll all be redundant. Poker will fill the void.
Supposedly it was Al Quada, as evidence points to them. Their head man is Osama Bin Laden, and we're supposedly looking for him and them in Aftganistan.
Remember Aftganistan?
We had good reason to be there.
We have no reason to be in Iraq. So why are we there too when we need to be in Aftganistan? Why are we continuing to rattle sabers in Iran's direction, when the problems we foresee will not come into being for another, what, four years at least? One country at a time!!!
And yet the domestic side suffers, for funding for the war is comming out of every other program. Excuse me, we're in a war. We run deficits in a war -- you don't balance a budget when you're trying to win it. An army needs as much cash as you can get, and then some, but you don't cut out support of your own people to do it!
I cannot wait for whoever comes into the Presidency in, what, under two years' time? He or she will need to clean up the mess made.
I'm going to avoid the news today. It'll all be redundant. Poker will fill the void.