I ran a legal news wire business in Foley Square for 20+ years...
In NYC there was life before 911, and there was what happened after.
A friend with a GCN radio show knew that WTC was my professional environs & called to ask if I could be interviewed live that afternoon.
I agreed, because I felt it was my responsibility, but when I went on the air I actually realized how mentally, emotionally & spiritually shaken I was, in fact I was in a state of shock...
I did make one prediction though: I announced that America *probably* wouldn’t learn *anything* positive from the attack(s).
I really wish I had been proven wrong, but it seems like every bad political/.gov/.mil/cultural problem we had prior to 911 was magnified many-fold in response.
These days I try not to think of 911 anymore, never been able to watch any video connected to the “event”, it was just to horrific...
I could go into great detail concerning many aspects of the “tragedy”, but why bother?
Instead of pulling together, taking out the trash, returning to our “spiritual” roots, we became more egoistically self-centered, proud & entitled, when what was needed was an awakening of humility & soul searching from sea-to-shining-sea.
Never thought I’d live to see *absolute* tyranny in America like has devolved over the last 23 years...
For those with children you love, my condolences.
“...it seems like every bad political/.gov/.mil/cultural problem we had prior to 911 was magnified many-fold in response...”
The only thing Government ever protects is itself. They never let an opportunity to increase their power slip by. Bureaucrats will increase their numbers, increase their power and reduce your freedom and liberty reflexively on any pretense. Major incidents like 9-11 only serve to accelerate that process like throwing gasoline on a fire, resulting in an actual witnessing of what usually is a slow, unobservable process...................