It's that day again.
Sep. 11th, 2004 02:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly9/11.
The day the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Dunbar in 1297.
What, you were thinking of another 9/11?
Sorry, I know, not solemn. But in another thousand years - hell, probably in another hundred years, nobody will care too much about today. Very few people care too much about December 7th, though of course they know what that day was. Nobody remembers exactly when the Boston Massacre was, and they certainly don't think about it yearly. I'm sure there's plenty of people who remember that OTHER 9/11, but I doubt they dwell on it. And people *do* dwell on it. Conversations just drift back there. While I feel generally bad about the dead, and I do think we'd all have been better off without it (for one thing, we mightn't be in Iraq, because we all know that was the excuse)... but I don't think it's healthy, the way people keep talking. "Never Forget" is a nice watchword, but how can you live your life if you really never forget, not for a second?
The day the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Dunbar in 1297.
What, you were thinking of another 9/11?
Sorry, I know, not solemn. But in another thousand years - hell, probably in another hundred years, nobody will care too much about today. Very few people care too much about December 7th, though of course they know what that day was. Nobody remembers exactly when the Boston Massacre was, and they certainly don't think about it yearly. I'm sure there's plenty of people who remember that OTHER 9/11, but I doubt they dwell on it. And people *do* dwell on it. Conversations just drift back there. While I feel generally bad about the dead, and I do think we'd all have been better off without it (for one thing, we mightn't be in Iraq, because we all know that was the excuse)... but I don't think it's healthy, the way people keep talking. "Never Forget" is a nice watchword, but how can you live your life if you really never forget, not for a second?
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Date: 2004-09-12 05:30 pm (UTC)the day my foot got crushed by a police horse when the coppers tried unsuccessfully to clear hords of protestors from the crown casino in melbourne for the world economic forum.
What heppend 12 months after that date was a tradegy true, but for me "s11" has a more significant and intimate meening. 9/11 began thre months of walking on crutches while i healed. Three months of having to live with a physical disability that generated within me noting but respect for the people who have perminant physical disability and have to live with it every day.
9/11 will meen differnt thigns to different people. If the WTO thing had impacted me personaly, mabye it would be differnet for me. As it is on spetember the eleventh, my brain becomes aware once more that my right foot is a mass of internalised scar tissue, and i keep off it for a few days until i rememebr how to forget the pain of it.