#Sep11 We’re up to 24 years ago now. I, of course, remember the day like it was yesterday. At the time, I was dealing with some heavy emotional stuff. My dad had died almost exactly a year before; the anniversary of his death was coming up the following Monday. And I was in the throes of grief 2.0. At the time I was having issues doing much of anything, which was frustrating, as I had gone through all of this already the year before. Nonetheless, I woke up that Tuesday morning with the blues. Just the week before, I had purchased my first really serious PC. It had what I considered an incredible amount of space on the drive, 60 gigabytes! I would have no trouble staying in that parameter. I had learned how to burn CD’s, so on that morning, I was up by 5:30 in the morning, as was my norm, and fired up my filesharing program to start loading the download queue. Just a bit after 6:00, I began noticing a significant decrease in download speed. Other than mild annoyance, I didn’t think too much about it. At around 6:30, I opened my Email. The first one I saw was from a group I belonged to for adult children of deceased parents talking about a plane hitting the World Trade Center. In my current state of mind my brain couldn’t make sense of that. So I turned on my radio to the all-news station, which by then was simulcasting WCBS. That’s when I learned what was happening. And what a day it was. May we never see its like again.

Stürzt morgen eigentlich wieder eine #Brücke in #Dresden ein?

Frage für einen Freund.

#911 #sep11 #satire

"It’s easy to lionize courage. It’s harder to reconcile it with queerness — especially when you’re a country still unsure how to celebrate a gay man without special qualifiers. In the aftermath of 9/11, Mark was praised as a patriot. But he was rarely acknowledged as a gay patriot.
...
Because to some, queerness complicates the hero archetype.

It shouldn’t.

But it does."
https://stranger.social/@prismnpen/114653839513843318
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https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-gay-hero-saved-the-u-s-capitol-and-changed-the-course-of-history-59745be9fe2b?sk=5ebaeba3eee7d75faae5e363eabc1530

#LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Sep11#MarkBingham #Gay

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Mark Bingham saved lives. But his sexuality made his story harder for America to embrace. And so it did what it always does when queerness challenges its myths: it trimmed the truth down to something more comfortable. More palatable. More straight. https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-gay-hero-saved-the-u-s-capitol-and-changed-the-course-of-history-59745be9fe2b?sk=5ebaeba3eee7d75faae5e363eabc1530 #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Sep11#MarkBingham #Gay

stranger.social

Mark Bingham saved lives. But his sexuality made his story harder for America to embrace. And so it did what it always does when queerness challenges its myths: it trimmed the truth down to something more comfortable. More palatable. More straight.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-gay-hero-saved-the-u-s-capitol-and-changed-the-course-of-history-59745be9fe2b?sk=5ebaeba3eee7d75faae5e363eabc1530

#LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Sep11#MarkBingham #Gay

A Gay Hero Saved the U.S. Capitol and Changed the Course of History

I don’t remember the first time I heard the name Mark Bingham. It might have been years after the smoke cleared, long after the shock of September 11 had calcified into memorial specials, bumper…

Prism & Pen

If #Oct7 was the Israeli #Sep11, and we were comparing the proportionality of responses to the hijackers sneaking off with live hostages.

The #American military would have carpet-bombed the mountains of Tora Bora to flatten them.

And written off the hostages.

@Alon

Comparing #Oct7 to #Sep11 was going to inevitably result in a #truther culture.

The reality is that neither the #American people nor those of #Israel want to accept both as failures of the State to protect citizens, because then they’d have to actually hold “leadership” accountable while also being terrified.

I have no doubt Hamas is evil.

Hamas formed in a desire to break the Oslo Accords.

Netanyahu & the Kahanists were pot-committed behind their strategy after taking out Yitzhak Rabin.

If #Oct7 was like #Sep11, then it’s another instance of a State failing to protect its citizens.

#history #terrorism #security #nationalism

So #Trump allegedly committed at least two crimes on the anniversary of 9/11 in his first year of his presidency. I’m not surprised. #sep11 #trumpindicted #trumpindictment