Ones and Zeros: Strange Days, Indeed

Strange Days, Indeed

September 11, 2002	La Vida
I didn't know Allison Horstmann Jones well when we were in high school. She was in my sister's class, and I knew a bunch of her classmates. My sister sent me an email, asking if I knew that she'd died in the WTC attack. I didn't know. She's not the first school-mate of mine to die. She's not the closest friend. I don't miss her, because I didn't keep track of her. I didn't know her husband or her sisters. I probably wouldn't have recognized her on the street. Lots of people have closer friends and loved ones who died. For them I wish remembrance of the good things about their lost ones. She shouldn't have had to die because someone had a heart so large that it could encompass hating the entire United States and an evil vision wherein he could imagine a way to hurt the entire United States at once. I don't watch TV regularly and I don't want to see any memorials. I remember just fine and I don't want to see it. But tonight I'll be thinking about a girl I once knew, not very well. And I will be sad and angry. I can't talk about big things right now, like politics or war, or national security. I'm just looking at a picture of someone I once knew who didn't make it down from the 104th floor.
.:Posted by Michael on September 11, 2002 5:06 PM:.

As much as i watched one year ago in disbelief at the event, like you i didnt want to see it on every channel all day. I didnt know anyone in the wtc, including Alison H Jones, but your text is straight and true, and on of the best 'memorials' anyone could have come up with - I salute you, and hope those who planned this look back with a feeling at least, of remorse, because even if to them it was conceived as a political victory, the reality is just too staggering a price for any cause

.:Posted by MikeyJ ( total) on September 14, 2002 2:41 PM:.