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I know where they will someday go: to see Ellis Island, to see the One-World Centre, to visit Ground Zero. But for now, they are escorted to Ft Dix on the bus, to be “processed”. Future unknown, uncertain. Your guess is just as good as theirs. But safer, for now. The children of 9/11 are…
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They were called “the Separatist”, because they wouldn’t take it any longer (the persecution and harassment of the Church of England). 1/3 children, 1/3 Pilgrims and the rest, vagabonds (today’s homeless) boarding a 30-foot boat, and set sail for Jamestown, VA… All planned to work off the debts accrued from their passage to the New…
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The World Trade Centre were built with Peace and Harmony in mind, according to Yamasaki, principal architect. 200,000 tons of steel, lifted by “Kangaroo Cranes” imported from Australia and assembled to be then the tallest. Another tower, the Third Tower, our pillar of Democracy, is under attack, from voting rights to culture war, from domestic…
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Right before our eyes, people crushed, pushed, shoved and showed their papers. Sweat and tears, separation and survival. Then the planes airlifted to 30,000 feet, leaving behind the dust and the doubts: free at last! Not yet. Not quite. Not completely and mentally self-vetted. You might want to be sure: do you want to leave…
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The commandment is to love one’s neighbours. That’s just in theory (biblical). In practice, there are such things as sociological construct (demographic), political affiliations and financial obligations (bank repossession). So your neighbours got evicted…in times of pandemic uptick, economic downturn and worst: Kabul falling. Every twenty years or so. We need to retake the test…of…
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Taliban 2.0 Gentler, softer… more softened in hiding, in cave, in Pakistan…read-up on US-issued ammo manuals, on the Koran, on Madison Avenue (re-branding), on Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook, twitter …anything and everything about modern life in the past 20 years… The softer side of Sears (Blue-light specials)… Coke is it. Might as well hire Paris…
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Saw a photo of a Vietnamese family of four (with children age 2 and 3) getting off the airport in Des Moines, IA back in 1979. The mother’s carry-on was a straw basket, popular with housewives to/fro wet market. Traveling light. Or perhaps that’s all they had – after the Thai pirates had done their…
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Long ago and seems so far away….(I fell in love with you…before the second show)…Almost, but before that, we kids ran around the neighbourhood – an alley in the middle- looking for anything. One day, that anything happened to be my bro-in-law’s fishing rod. It just happened that an really old couple across from us…
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Haven’t we heard enough or watched enough! And the control room keeps punching “Stay tuned” graphics to fill up the empty air – precious air-time – without regards for our own time (in the times of pandemic, our time all of a sudden becomes more precious commodities – irreplaceable). Or the field reporters would end…
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From the beginning to the end (relatively speaking), it’s been messy: no time to prepare, to plan it out and to execute flawlessly. Todd Beamer might have planned his family’s Roman Holiday to the teeth, in the days leading to 9/11 and to not miss that fateful flight (UA-93), but only to ACT and act…
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