Mom called me around 9 a.m. September 11, 2001, to tell me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
“Turn on the television,” she said.
Posts Tagged ‘9/11’
We All Gonna’ Die And Most Departures Won’t Make the Evening News But RIP Michael Jackson
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Tags:56 Glenwood, 9/11, Avenue, Carmelites, death, dying, Jersey City, JFK, Kim Smith, Medical examiners, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson dies, Monroe Couty Medica Examiner, obituaries, Path trains, SWAT
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9/11
Saturday, September 10th, 2011Several days ago, New America Media invited this writer to attend a meeting of New York City-based ethnic journalists who would be talking about their articles for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Asked about my plans – this writer hadn’t been planning to share – he spoke in tongues, that is, his response was as articulate as a person speaking with his tongue flailing the roof of the mouth and the sides of his teeth, upper and lower. Caught off guard, he couldn’t articulate, didn’t enunciate.
What follows is what might have been said or referred to if this writer had had the presence of mind many wish for when a signature moment beckons them to rise to the occasion: From the Center for Constitutional Rights regarding a panel discussion, September 12: The 9/11 Decade and the Decline of U.S. Democracy.
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