Tomorrow is September 11th

[Bikini Mod]

I was on the ICQ with The Ranger and I thought for sure he was fucking with me (he was always SUCH a cutup) when he told me what was happening. I didn't believe him until I left my PC and turned on the TV (I never watched TV).

My exbrotherinlaw was uncharacteristically late to work that morning. He worked for Dean Witter. As his train finally pulled into the station and he tried to come up the steps he and all the others were forced back down into the subway from the smoke and ash. His son worked for another brokerage firm was in a building facing the twin towers. He saw it all - hundreds up people screaming for help and plummeting to their deaths when they desperately jumped.

My ex and I had not been divorced yet and was visibly shaken by what had happened as the family did not know about my exbro-in-law or his son for many hours. We had one of 2/3 lucid conversations since we split. He said that he didn't want to fight and that he would settle because now he saw how truly short life was.

Ironically his brother has since died (from AIDS) but he just keeps on breathing.

It's also my niece's birthday.... so it is a wierd feeling for us. The first time ever as an American I saw tanks rolling down the streets.... the same reason why my parents moved here - to avoid that. I suppose none of us are truly safe or free... are we?

 

[wootoom]

i hate wootoom but I love his wife

i need you

 

[the_clockwork]

I kneed dough

 

[jack sparrow]

Moving on and having respect are 2 different things. Some people are just no class. I hope you die!

loloollololol

 

[jack sparrow]

 

[Bikini Mod]

my kid could be born tommorow

My niece's birthdate is 11 SEP.

 

[yonkers weights]

BM - I am sure it is not easy for her.

 

[Bikini Mod]

She's actually too young to realize the signifigance of the date... and now since they moved it will most likely not be too much of an impact for her.

But for my sister and I it was surreal. I still remember driving to work seeing all the black smoke from the NJ Turnpike....

Then you couldn't turn a TV on for WEEKS without seeing that shit over and over and over again... and all the freaking dummy parents letting their children watch it over and over and over again. Wasn't it bad enough for the kids who live there and who lost parent's and other loved ones?

The whole thing is very surreal for me. I think that the images of the tanks was what shook me up the most. Growing up I was always reminded of the tanks rolling down the streets in Budapest and all the young kids who rose up and tried to rebel armed with nothing more than Malotov cocktails. Now to imagine that in the US?.... was too much. And yet my family is moving back...

I am greatly saddened by my country.

I was always appreciative that my ex bro-inlaw and his son were not harmed but I can't for the life of my understand the rest of that family to have been affected so little that they continued on their path of hatred and abuse when they had all been given a chance to be spared from loss....

C'est la vie.

 

[reno240]

I heard on the radio the other day that one of the major TV channels in NY is not televising the reading of the names for the first time.

 

[yonkers weights]

Which one? I have not heard that at all. That is so dumb...