DianeG5385
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Sun Jul-13-03 09:19 PM
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The ninth of April is my birthday... |
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September 11 is my sisters birthday. I remember on 9/11 trying to make her 40th a festive occasion as partygoers could not get their eyes from the tube, me included. I worked across the street from the TransAmerica Pyramid in San Francisco and felt especially vulnerable. While I was totally against the war in Iraq, feeling that the motivation for it was based on a lie ten years in the making, when the Statue of Saddam came down in Baghdad and it "appeared" the people were celebrating on my birthday, , I thought it was a gift to me in my grief that the war was illegal. I briefly thought the Iraqis actually wanted us there. That was my delusion and I know better as must the world as we are committing a crime and killing indiscriminately as we set the law in THEIR country. Our birthdays will never be the same.
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Sun Jul-13-03 09:29 PM
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my birthday is September 10th. I remember as a kid thinking how much I hated having my birthday in September b/c with the start of school and making new friends and all, it was always kind of forgotten.
Now, I will forever remember it as "the day before the world changed" on some level.
(Sorry if this is a little off topic, thought I'd share anyway). :)
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salin
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Sun Jul-13-03 09:30 PM
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Our world changed on both of your birthdays.
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Sun Jul-13-03 09:44 PM
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3. This might cheer you up - my birthday is King |
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Kamehameha day in Hawaii.
Well, maybe not. He fought some bloody wars too, but at least he was in those wars, like a "warrior leader" should. At least, one who claims that he was a warrior should.
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Sun Jul-13-03 09:46 PM
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Veterans/Armistice Day. The end of WWI. Fitting for a peacenik like me, I guess.
I remember my bro's 21st bday was the day the riots began here in L.A. in '92. We were a bit concerned about him being out barhopping, drunk, and completely unaware of what was going on around him in the city.
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Sun Jul-13-03 09:50 PM
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5. September 11 is my husband's birthday, too |
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Last night we were sitting in Hoboken looking over at the New York skyline, forever changed and bereft. He talked about how as a teen he had been able to watch from across the river as the towers went up, and he always felt a personal connection with them. He worked in one for a while, for the Port Authority, and later, whenever he would go into the city he would walk through the plaza before taking the ferry back to Jersey. They were always such a touchstone-- and for them to collapse on his birthday seemed the final irony.
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DianeG5385
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Sun Jul-13-03 10:19 PM
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6. Many, many people were destroyed by 9/11 |
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Our current gov't. has used their grief for personal vendettas. One of my managers had a son-in law lost during the blast. Another lost his favorite memories of shopping at Christams time at the towers. A partner with a Big 6 (4?) firm I work with described his harrowing escape from a building near the towers. I felt personally scarred. People I work with lost friends. I blame it on LIHOP.
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