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Remember

Written by: womenslegacy
Published: September 10, 2011 -- Last Modified: September 10, 2011
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I once had a little white on black button from the Holocaust Museum in D.C. that simply said, “remember.”  My husband borrowed it, and I never saw it again.  Somehow that is fitting.  Things don’t last.  Things vanish.  But memories are different.  We keep them and review them in grief, and for comfort, until they are worn smooth into polished icons of remembrance. 

We got the call from my step-daughter early that day; we didn’t have hours, days or weeks of worry.  She was a lovely and quite intelligent young woman, only 25, who worked in lower Manhattan, not all that far from the WTC,  and lived in Brooklyn.  She was okay.  Her building had been evacuated and she was going to have to walk back to Brooklyn that day.  Our younger daughter was in 6th grade and the school called because they were concerned about her.  She seemed to grasp the enormity of the attacks and was emotionally devastated and raw unlike many of her peers who just did not quite get it.  She’d been to the WTC the previous month, August 2001, with her dad, my husband, when he stopped in to see a broker. We didn’t know it then but she would spend 7th grade in Arlington, VA with classmates who lost parents in the attack on the Pentagon.   I spent years disseminating real information about the Iraq War that most folks now grudgingly recognize as truth, and during those years many despised me, called me a traitor, and threatened me and my family.  It has been a hard 10 years. 


I wrote, globally, about the initial thoughts I had on the blog/site I ran at the time called Late Boomers.  The three articles I wrote that were “about” the attacks on the U.S. can be read, in the same format in which they appeared then, at:


Boomers Unique Take on Patriotism and Military Service

A Lifetime of Violence: Terrorism, Rates of Information Flow and Baby Boomers

Art, Angst, and Zeitgeist

And I expressed myself through poetry, bad though it was, which was accepted for the Poets Against the War Website .

There was this site, and before that another site, where I chronicled and pondered the journey from 9/11 onward. 

And of course there was a wrap up (for me anyway) of the impact 9/11 had on my life that I posted to BlogHer.com after bin Laden was killed this past Spring: On Realizing I Was Impacted by Terrorism.


I have been feeling numb this past week.  Perhaps because of the approaching anniversary.  Anniversaries of sad events always get to me even if I don’t consciously remember them.  This year I have had to add another sad connection to 9/11.  This year, on January 8th, Tucson lost a little girl whose 10th Birthday anniversary is tomorrow. 


Please, let’s try to build peace, kindness, and a loving human family. 

buildpeace.blogspot.com

Categories: Blogging & WritingTags: 10 years later, 9/11, anniversary, Christina-Taylor Green, chronicle, generation, impact, January 8th, New York, Peace, Pentagon, Remember, September 11, terrorism, Tucson, war, writings just after the attacks, WTC

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  1. Kelly

    September 11, 2011 at 4:22 am

    I loved the imagery of these sentences — so poignant and strong.

    But memories are different. We keep them and review them in grief, and for comfort, until they are worn smooth into polished icons of remembrance.

    Reply
  2. Nerthus

    September 20, 2011 at 8:47 am

    Thank you Kelly. I appreciate your comment as you write, and read, all the time per your blog!

    Reply

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