Day: September 11, 2013

November should be amazing.. Ison.. And Lovejoy will inhabit the sky..

I debated with myself just a bit as to whether or not I would write a posting concerning the anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks on America.. But as I did my yearly ritual of watching at least 20 minutes of news coverage from that day, I felt the urge to put one thought out there.. The thought was inspired not only by the obligatory depression that ensues after watching a dramatic event play out on then-live TV, but it was coupled this year by my son’s daycare requesting that he and other students wear red white and blue today..
I was childless and in a whole different personal place in 2001..
Changes occurred.
Now I just wonder to myself, so many years now after 9/11 occurred, what could kids of today possibly think of all this?

My son is only a little over two and has no clue why he’s wearing his red Angry Birds shirt with his white and blue shorts.. He did not live through that day, unless reincarnation really does happen..

There are a lot of kids who did not live through that day and will never know what it meant to live through the first few hours of the beginning of a whole new world..

From the time the news networks gather their thoughts and went to live special report programming for what seemed like 100 hours straight, everything certainly did change.

The teenagers of today were too young to truly recall the horror of then, and the early 20-year-old crowd now probably has distinct memories of being picked up at school by their parents or watching some old television set with live streaming coverage of planes hitting buildings.. But I dare say that it is my generation, the folks who are now about 30 through 35 years old, that felt the biggest impact of change.. Being 21 and suddenly realizing that you’re really not safe in America, and that war and modern hate exists is quite dramatic..

I actually believe that to this day, many people still will feel the same emotions swell inside them when they watch the videos from 12 years back.. They will recall the exact whereabouts of their bodily condition, and they will also remember their mental stability fluctuating for hours as we watched America enter the 21st century of war..

On September 11 last year an embassy in Libya fell victim to attack, and this year September 11 falls a day after the president addressed the nation about the prospects of another war in Syria..

War
War
War
…war. All this war and not a drop to drink

So I will not belabor the point, or write an endless amount of words about today’s anniversary– you can certainly read my past posts throughout the past 12 years to get enough melancholy September 11 propaganda for me..

But I would just say that as time passes and we look in the mirror at our aging faces, what story lurks in your eyes? Even in your own personal life think of the people that you lost to disease or death over the past 12 years.. Think of the monumental changes in technology that occurred in just the past two years. I bet you can still however, even with all of this change, recall those very specific emotions you felt around 9 AM on September 11, 2001..

If you were here to live through them of course..

There are a few thoughts going around my head tonight after watching Pres. Obama addressed the nation.
The first thing I am struck by is probably quite dumb to even mention, but it bothers me: He never sits at the desk in the Oval Office to address us, instead he typically stands at a podium.. Bush did this two on a few occasions, but I just don’t like it.. To me that large desk with those bland drapes behind him and the photographs of his wife and children provide a more commanding platform for a leader to address the people..

But that really is not what mattered tonight..

We sure have come along way since 9/11/2001, and along way since Benghazi last 9/11..

Somehow Vladimir the Impaler Putin has managed to broker some form of a diplomatic solution to Syria, has backed Barack Obama into a strange corner, and has delayed a US strike on that nation..

Tonight on CNN, Andrew Sullivan told Anderson Cooper that the Obama speech persuaded him to back war.. Or whatever it is we would call it..

I do not know if it feels like the run-up to war or not, as suddenly the table has turned. The speech tonight that Obama gave was awkward and strange..

What seemed like a sure bet only a day ago suddenly turned into a doubtful course of action throughout the past 24 hours thanks to mother Russia..

No word from Vlad on what Edward Snowden thanks, I am sure the powers that be know what he thinks.

Meanwhile, the leader of the free world has told us to download videos and watch children be killed by chemical weapons.

What a strange, creepy, and truly frightening world we live in..

President Obama has announced tonight in an address to then nation that a delay to strike Syria will be delayed.. and that he will pursue diplomatic angles with Vladimir Putin

Amazing foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours–and it appears Russia is steering the global ship..