Originally Posted by jewels

I don't think many romanticize it, or that many even see it as a "patriotic rallying point". I do think that most view it as a remembrance of those who lost their lives. Period.

Originally Posted by roachboy

you didn't read the post, jorgelito.
i'd apologize, but i am not responsible for your choices in terms of selective reading.

i made a clear distinction between the events themselves and the grief of those who lost people, and the way the events--and by extension that grief--has been stepped on in the construction of this miserable, racist narrative at the center of the "war on terror"--and i meant it.

and even if i hadn't, the post was about *my* experience that day, and there is nothing you can say, no claim that you can make, and no level of misreading you can manage that makes *my* experience of that day any more or less meaningful than your own.

i'm sorry about your loss--maybe i should have put that in a few times--but it was early in the morning and i just wrote what i remembered--and i'm sorry for that omission---but frankly the world is like that, jorgelito--not everything, not everyone's memory, is connected to an event like the attacks in nyc in the same way--and you, who are effectively accusing me of having no respect for yours, in turn have none at all for mine--because so far as i can tell, you didn't bother to read the post.

you aren't the only person who experienced loss that day, pal.
i don't have anything else to say.