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They keep coming. The Haitians. Wading through waters. Muddle waters. Women, children and men. Last year, near 12,000 refugees including Afghan were admitted. It’s the lowest since 1975. The year I entered the US. Also wading waters, carry-on on the side. First to Subic Bay, then onto the Mainland. Greeted us were nuns and priests,…
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Stripped off nobility, You can still have dignity. That’s the difference. You and I have the latter while very few inherited the former. Not even Bezos or Zuckerberg. They might be able to “buy” the title “Sir” (Charlie Chaplin, Elton John and Paul McCartney earned it by their talents and fame). Once again, I scanned…
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I was conceived and designed to be the tallest. Everyone wanted a piece of me (and my twin): taking pictures, walking a tight wire from one end to the other; reserving tables at Windows on the World (Carpenters’ Top of the world on muzak) then using commercial jet liners to hit me and my twin,…
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In the end, who else can we be, identifiable and predictable, but ourselves: conceived in a womb, at the intersect of two people, who themselves were products of billions of permutations and years of evolution. David Brooks opined that we – human being – have yet made much progress on self-awareness. We can re-frame our…
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Here is Bingham https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/09/11/rugby-star-9-11-hero-mark-bingham-leaves-lasting-legacy-20-years-after-united-flight-93-crash/ Here is Beamer https://www.wsj.com/articles/flight-93-united-todd-beamer-9-11-september-eleventh-jihadist-terrorist-attack-11631223355?page=1 Local (SF) vs National/International coverage (WSJ). Although the Twin Towers were built side by side, these two heroes who died of equal deaths and carried equal weights, drew unequal attention. That’s all I am saying. And that’s just in a span of twenty years. Another 40, 50…
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When the (Memorial) park workers laid my father six feet below ground, my sister, on my left, said “The la xong” (C’est fini, It is finished). I was too busy processing the combined visual, auditory and kinetic sensories to figure out what she meant by that. Maybe she, the oldest person alive to have lived…
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The battle did not start on that day and certainly not ended at 10:06 AM when UA-93 went down on 9/11. A bit more flying, it would have crashed and killed 501 students of Shanksville-Stoney Creek School in Pennsylvania. Left to its intended course (after the U-turn), it was a guided missile locked for the…
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People were often asked that very same question, as time goes by. When President Kennedy got shot in Dallas, the US was a nation in shock and with shared grief. Thanks to the medium of Television, CBS News in particular, with Cronkite, barely had the time to put on his sports coat for Breaking News…
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Irregular. Refurbished. Re-store. Pre-Own. Salvage. Rental-return. Opened-box, on-display robots. Companies e.g. Fry’s Electronics, understandably try to push products. Electronics items used to command high-priced high margins (the trend is returning, with Intel investment in Europe). Others pushed furniture rentals (it might work in our post-Ida period) in destitute neighbourhood (it’s the financial back-end, stupid). Before…
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Everything came in twos on that day: the Twin Towers, NYC’s two front teeth, got knocked out. At the same time, the perpetrators had planned another one-two punch in D.C. but their plan was thwarted by Beamer and fellow passengers on UA-93. We might think 9/11 was just one day. But 9/11 has taken a…
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