My 9/11 Published LTTE, and “The Power of Remembrance.”

[Kurovski]

Both are still applicable to the current state of our government, despite having been written years ago. The American people still go begging for answers and real change.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/chi-0209040291sep04,0,6324694.story

“Those touched by Sept. 11 will never be forgotten” -September 4, 2002

“…It has been said elsewhere that if the terrorists hate us for our freedoms, they have done a fine job of dismantling them. Our own leaders have been too quick to attack our freedoms.

The current secrecy of our government is inappropriate. Our politicians are disturbingly casual about getting to the bottom of what was the most immense failure of government in American history.

And from the start, some have been in a rush to capitalize on that day in September.

It is our duty to speak up. We may fairly criticize one another, but we must never strive to silence one another.

President Bush is correct when he jokes about how much easier his job would be if America were a dictatorship. Democracy is the difficult thing.”

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“The Power of Remembrance” -September 11, 2003

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/09/11_power.html

“…In fact, were it not for the efforts of four mothers who were widowed on Sept. 11, known as "The Jersey Girls," we wouldn't have an investigation into 9/11 at all - hobbled and constrained as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be by the Bush/Cheney administration.

The women; Lorie van Auken, Kristen Breitweiser, Mindy Kleinberg and Patty Casazza continue to find a lack of official cooperation as well as a great deal that doesn't add up. They wonder why NORAD - North American Aerospace Defense Command - didn't act as they should in the case of any air attack. And if it's true the administration did not know specifics prior to 9/11, then why is it Attorney General John Ashcroft refused to fly commercial airlines in the weeks before 9/11? Why did Bush sit in a classroom joking with second-graders after he was told the attack on America was underway, while, as Mrs. van Auken puts it, "...my husband was burning in a building."

For obvious reasons, it's best not to argue that an investigation such as this is pursued merely to gain political benefit. Aside from insulting widows, that argument only reminds us that a sinking Bush presidency itself gained a number of benefits from 9/11. Let's remember the PNAC, Project for the New American Century and its "Pearl Harbor" statement which said a domestic disaster would be helpful in implementing plans to invade Iraq and sweep the Middle East. Let's remember that George Bush himself said 9/11 was part of his having "hit the trifecta." That's our Mr. Bush, the man who really knows how to put the "con" in "compassionate conservatism."

The group has not found any satisfactory answers to their many questions, nor do they see any proof that we're safer now than prior to 9/11. A subsequent lack of spectacular, multiple attacks within our shores does not prove much more than that a disaster of Sept. 11 proportions would never have happened had our government been doing its job. So then, why didn't it? When we know the answer to that, then we might begin to safeguard ourselves.

… I look at footage of the collapsing towers listing and sinking like a ship into an ocean of poison smoke and human vapor, a scarred and scorched Pennsylvania field, a seared and shattered Pentagon, and I still see something terribly wrong. I still see things that should not have happened. And still there are no answers.”



--The only edit I would make in that essay today would be that Max Cleland and voters were most likely also victims of election fraud. It’s amazing how America’s situation has deteriorated since 9/11. And that’s pretty much how “everything’s changed since 9/11”, as that old Bush administration saying goes.

[EFerrari]

1. I agree. Our democracy is coming down nearly as quickly

as those towers.

Not very verbal today.

Just K&R

/ack

[Kurovski]

2. You're in my thoughts and prayers, kiddo.

:hug:

[EFerrari]

3. Thanks. The scene continues. I needed that.

:loveya:

[Kurovski]

4. Always...

:loveya:

[autorank]

5. Powerful words, eternal ideas. We will never forget. K&R!!!

And we'll remember in the right way, through the use of inquiry to reach the truth.

This is just terrific, the LTTE particularly.

I can never get over that light stream they use for the towers. I woke up to those towers every day
for two years almost; looked out first thing from my window and saw lower Manhattan and those two
towers. I can't believe they're gone and gone in the way they were destroyed.

Thank you for this. One of the best posts I've seen today for me personally.

[Kurovski]

7. And that's the power of remembrance.

Thank you.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. Great letter!

and it still applies, sadly. :(

[Kurovski]

9. Even after the 9/11 commission, we're still in the same place.

The only real movement we've seen is that toward fascism.

[katinmn]

8. A beautiful letter. K&R

I didn't watch TV either. I went to a memorial service put on by people who still want answers. We heard a woman speaking about her sister who died at the Pentagon, a burn trauma nurse who went to Washington to help out as a FEMA volunteer, and a retired actress who went home to NY to volunteer at a 24/7 cafe that stayed open for months to serve all the other volunteers.

I mourn for the more innocent days before 9/11. Our country has lost so much.

Thanks for sharing your letter.

[bleever]

10. Thank you, Kurovski

for speaking the truth you see, when silence and acquiescence were what was demanded of us.

[Kurovski]

12. It was "demanded" of me in print by some in my local community

prior to the Iraq war in a series of letters, but every printed attack was an opportunity to counter with yet more truth.

I couldn't really honestly counter the accusations that I'm mentally deficient, but then, you don't have to be brilliant to figure out the truth.:-)

They were very big on the personal attacks.

[nicknameless]

11. Powerful ltte and article.

Sadly, you're right. So many unanswered questions.
When you think about it, which IF ANY question about that event, was honestly answered?
A national disgrace.

We can't and won't forget.