9/11 comes every year

[oldsma]

7 years ago today, I watched the Pentagon burn from my office window and the people on United Flight 93 died so I could be alive. I love the first responders who showed how good and brave people can be. I love the people who posted pictures of their loved ones because they could not abandon hope. I love the people who pulled tiny bits of other people out of the rubble and the ones who painstakingly identified the bits.

I hate the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and paramilitary police behind tough-guy shades watching me all the time. I hate every authoritarian elitist using 9/11 as a club to get more and more control of my life and to take away my privacy. I hate the war in Iraq, which was started for spite using 9/11 as an excuse. I hate security theater. I hate that so many people around me have been convinced to be afraid and convinced that the destruction of the American ideal is the only way they can be safe.

UNITED FLIGHT 93

Crew:
CAPTAIN JASON DAHL
FIRST OFFICER LEROY HOMER
FLIGHT ATTENDANT WANDA A. GREEN
FLIGHT ATTENDANT LORRAINE G. BAY
FLIGHT ATTENDANT CEECEE LYLES
FLIGHT ATTENDANT SANDRA W. BRADSHAW
FLIGHT ATTENDANT DEBORAH A. WELSH

Passengers:
CHRISTIAN ADAMS
TODD BEAMER
ALAN BEAVEN
MARK BINGHAM
THOMAS BURNETT
WILLIAM CASHMAN
GEORGINE CORRIGAN
JOSEPH DELUCA
PATRICK DRISCOLL
EDWARD FELT
COLLEEN FRASER
ANDREW GARCIA
JEREMY GLICK
LAUREN GRANDCOLAS
DONALD GREENE
LINDA GRONLUND
RICHARD GUADAGNO
TOSHIYA KUGE
WALESKA MARTINEZ
NICOLE MILLER
MARK ROTHENBERG
JOHN TALIGNANI
HONOR WAINIO