Memories

[bryant]

Lest we forget.

Comments

[alex-victory.livejournal.com]

I wish I were less negative. All I can think about is how we've squandered all that good will in less than six years.

[ckd]

For certain values of "we" that unfortunately reflect on the rest of us.

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

Hell... we squandered it in less than two years, never mind six.

[rfrancis]

And here I was about to post the same thing. I am touched again to see the pictures, but yeah, all I can think is, "Wow, we as a nation pissed it all away so quickly."

Being somewhat less negative, I choose to believe that many of those people have love for us, the people, still, and now they light candles to the hope that we'll find our way back. I hope they do, anyway.

[bryant]

Yeah. What I remember is the hope I felt when I first saw them, because... well, because I think that is the real reaction, and however anyone feels about the US now is not relevant to the underlying sympathy that people have for people in the face of such awful deeds.

[rfrancis]

The person who isn't touched by the photo on page 6 of the Palestinian women in East Jerusalem -- a people who rightfully should have nothing but scorn and despite for us -- visibly saddened? That person has no soul.

Thanks for pointing this out. Lest we forget, indeed; lest we forget, as we so often do, that borders are bullshit and governments are, at best, necessary evils, and that every pointless act of violence diminishes us all. These people remembered.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

That page is going to make me cry for the rest of my life. Every time I look at it, it hurts.

[dcltdw]

Wait... that's back in '01, not this year, right?

[bryant]

Yep.

[wemble.livejournal.com]

I've put Portraits: 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" from The New York Times out as the center of my book display again this year.