Planned 9/11 military flyover prompts outrage; Mayor Bill de Blasio calls it ‘inappropriate’

[conuly]

It is inappropriate, especially with what looks like little to no warning. I've told you what happened that Memorial Day when there was a flyover I didn't know about, right? I ended up in the basement 15 minutes with the kids! They thought I was crazy! Whoever had this bad idea, I hope they have bad dreams for the next decade.

I'd wish them worse, but it looks like their vision of terror has been cancelled, thankfully. I don't like normal planes when they fly a little low, and I know I'm not the only one.

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[poliphilo]

I wonder they didn't go all the way and fly some airliners over the city.

[conuly]

For me, airliners would be preferable. For one thing, we can't *avoid* them - they still have to fly overhead. We can't just have them land in Iowa and make all the tourists take a bus from there.

But also, my memories of 9/11 very nearly start with my third period teacher telling us that the teachers didn't know much but that they did know that all the planes had been grounded, and that sentence being punctuated by the sound of fighter jets above us.