9/11

[arcessita]

I was going to write about my conflicting feelings about 9/11, but Zuzu and Jill said most of what I was thinking

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[la_vita_nuova]

how much do I love that you are a fellow Feministe reader?

[arcessita]

How much do I love that *you* are? *grins*

[ravensnow]

There's something really honest about it, like paying your respects at the gravesite of someone you don't know.

That's it exactly. You pray for all those souls who were lost and you imagine what they were like as people and I think it brings you closer to humanity, mortality and all those things we like to keep hidden, like spirtuality, faith, grace, and vulnerability. So, I hate the mockery that the spectre of 9/11 can make of their memories -- as if the miracle of their existences was reduced to being only an excuse for war.