Anniversary of 911

Hard to believe 911 was eleven years ago.
Sometimes it seems like yesterday.
It was a terrible day.
I remember going to the roof of my apartment building and seeing the first tower collapse with my own eyes.
The stench of the dead downtown sometimes misted up in a cab and reminded you of the awfulness of death.
The sad notices all over downtown of people looking for their missing ones.
The empty hospitals downtown because there were no wounded, only the dead.


The  inane and criminal actions of the Bush administration using 911 as a justification:

Torture
Rendition
The invasion of Iraq and the terrible suffering of the Iraqi people.


Thank god Bush is gone, Osama is dead, and Obama is now the President.