[algernonpj]

I’ve known for decades that the rule of law is irrelevant here as well; no white male has any misconception about how the law treats him in terms of employment/promotions, higher education, or interracial disputes of any kind.

I felt terrible about the individuals lost on 9/11, living a few miles west of the WTC in a town that lost people, but at the same time felt like I was watching a foreign group attack another foreign country that I happened to be living in.

Your post has captured my feelings of profound sadness. There are times I feel like wearing a black arm band mourning the country we used to have.

On 9-11 I was consulting in Edison at a company; many employees had relatives at the WTC. There was a TV in the conference room, on all day tuned to the only channel left that still broadcast out of Secaucus, not the WTC. I still remember the sound of the big black helicopters, the only air craft in the sky. The NJ Turnpike was free for about a week; your money was given back when you handed in your ticket.

[kearnyirish2]

We watched from our office windows in NJ; it was bad, but at least we weren’t close enough to see the people falling/jumping. That day will effect many people in this area for the rest of their lives; so many towns in NJ lost some people, and so many people aged years in hours waiting to hear from loved ones working in that area.

It brought out the best in what we were, while demonstrating the flaws in what we had become as well; when mosques were allowed to open the next day, I knew America had lost the will to fight.