you know, here's the thing. watching the news feed at the y while working out this morning, and then having to go find some vacuous fitness magazine to look at instead so i don't have to see the same loop of images replaying, over and over again.
never forget. right. as if the people that were there, that lost someone, that walk around with scars yet today could ever forget what happened that day. like i could ever forget what happened in that place, on that day.
you know what i wish people would never forget? how this administration used that tragedy, those lives lost, to lie to us, to manipulate us, to inflate our fears and mistrust and increase our isolationism. to justify a war based on false premises, and to erode our civil rights and civil liberties in the name of the war against terror.
i wish we would never forget the lessons hard learned on that day, but i don't think very many of us ever learned them to begin with.
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