[Ipg-smz] 9/11

[Patrick Corrigan]

We not only seem to have not learned any real lessons from that day, but as
the "greatest generation" dies off we seem to be "unlearning" the lessons
from WWII, with the specter of fascism rising around the world.

I am sad for what happened that day and for what is happening today. At the
moment I'm not particularly hopeful.


On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 7:52 AM, Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
wrote:

> Fellow Guilders,
>
> It's a solemn day for many of us, as we remember the beginning of the
> madness we face even to this day.
>
> We've probably told and retold the stories of where we were, and the
> crazinesses that followed. The colleagues gone. Travel disrupted. Lives
> disrupted. The buried across both the US, but especially the hundreds of
> thousands now buried across the Middle East.
>
> My NYC friends bore the worst of the brunt, but not exclusively, and not
> for long.
>
> Today, worldwide public transportation is forever changed, personal
> privacy, dignity, and scrutiny have been nearly washed away.
>
> Ally now fights ally, entrenched in insane military spending, bombarding
> each other with tariffs, sanctions, and deeply divisive morass.
>
> At home in the US, deep divisions in public opinion reveal concerted
> efforts to continue an internal gulf, rarely bridged, and full of
> vituperative epithet.
>
> It's my hope that we'll learn the 9/11 lesson one day, when we look at the
> healed scar tissue.
>
> Peace,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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