Posted by Marie1 on September 19, 2001, at 7:50:57
In reply to lighting a candle, posted by susan C on September 18, 2001, at 21:21:58
My Northern Virginia community held a candle light service on the court house grounds tonight. Guest speaker was a neighbor who barely escaped certain death last Tuesday (he works in the Pentagon and was less than 100 yds. from where the airplane hit). He lost it during his recitation of the facts. It was extremely emotional for the crowd.
I am rather shocked at Sar's comments that she feels nothing regarding the unprovoked attack of our country and it's aftermath. Is this because of the geographical distance between most of the country's population and the sites of the destruction? I should hope not; this is fuck-you to the entire country. It affects us all.
As far as the "exploitative" nature of our government, the US is the largest contributor of food to Afganistan. I can't imagine how that can be constued as exploitative.
Marie
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