I'll never forget that day either. I was working at Yale University's New School of Medicine as a pipe fitter and a plumber who was always joking around had his flip phone in hand at a 9 am coffee break and told fifty or so of us the news. My partner who I rode with to work wife was working in the towers that day and his daughter was attending school in NYC. They were fine and never got a scratch.
Incredibly insightful and informative. You expose the dark underbelly of events that your reader is probably unaware of and which has become the foundation of the twisted ideology of the present and driving much of our political insanity and rhetoric.
P.S. The August 2001 intelligence brief about bin Laden's determination to strike in u.s. with it's mention of highjackings -- which Condi claimed wasn't "actionable." The June 2001 album cover by the Coup featuring Boots Riley and Funktress Pam blowing up the Twin Towers.
The unctuous Ahmed Chalabi. Susan Sontag lambasted for "Why They Hate Us." Christopher Hitchens (post Rushdie fatwa and 9/11 freakout) telling an audience I was in that everyone in Guantanamo should be summarily executed. I spent three years ghostwriting (literally) a book that had been proposed by a (pregnant) woman who died on Flight 93. Words fail me but yours are wonderful. Thanks.
My first trip to Europe was Paris 2003. We went to rebel against the whole "freedom fries" thing. In the midst of reading this excellent write, I smiled thinking we might have been there at the same time.
I'll never forget that day either. I was working at Yale University's New School of Medicine as a pipe fitter and a plumber who was always joking around had his flip phone in hand at a 9 am coffee break and told fifty or so of us the news. My partner who I rode with to work wife was working in the towers that day and his daughter was attending school in NYC. They were fine and never got a scratch.
Incredibly insightful and informative. You expose the dark underbelly of events that your reader is probably unaware of and which has become the foundation of the twisted ideology of the present and driving much of our political insanity and rhetoric.
My hope is that in another 25 years a majority of U.S. citizens will be aware of your story and will learn from it.
P.P.S. Would NATO invoke Article 5 for us today?
P.S. The August 2001 intelligence brief about bin Laden's determination to strike in u.s. with it's mention of highjackings -- which Condi claimed wasn't "actionable." The June 2001 album cover by the Coup featuring Boots Riley and Funktress Pam blowing up the Twin Towers.
The unctuous Ahmed Chalabi. Susan Sontag lambasted for "Why They Hate Us." Christopher Hitchens (post Rushdie fatwa and 9/11 freakout) telling an audience I was in that everyone in Guantanamo should be summarily executed. I spent three years ghostwriting (literally) a book that had been proposed by a (pregnant) woman who died on Flight 93. Words fail me but yours are wonderful. Thanks.
My first trip to Europe was Paris 2003. We went to rebel against the whole "freedom fries" thing. In the midst of reading this excellent write, I smiled thinking we might have been there at the same time.