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Good morning, Netizens…
I close my eyes and in semi-repose tenderly consider a Texas husband-and-wife team of truck drivers that briefly touched life in the Inland Northwest the other day. They were hauling a pair of steel beams taken from the wreckage of the World Trade Center from New York to just north of Bremerton, Washington as part of a memorial to 9-1-1.
There was a controversy, fortunately short-lived, about the fact the twisted metal beams were wrapped in the U.S. Flags. My philosophy is those beams, burned and twisted in a time of war, earned that right.
One of our own ad hoc street poets, Marshall Smith, eloquently stated of the flag-shrouded WTC beams, “They can bend and twist us. Be we will never, never break.”
Somehow in the peace and tranquility of an early gray morning, as a tractor trailer continues its way down the road to Ellensburg, thence to Bremerton, American flags wrapped around a pair of warped steel beams glow softly in the darkness, carrying that message onward, ever onward.
Dave
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arliacne on August 23 at 6:41 a.m.
I have a little problem with this. First the worship of a couple of twisted hunks of steel. Second the refusal to move on.
Why cling so tightly to some man-made edifice? They weren’t the targets. US idealism and values, freedom of and from religion were the targets.
We seem to tie human life, happiness, hopes, joy and suffering into the objects we create. Those few thousand lives are pretty insignificant when taking into consideration the millions of lives snuffed in the name of one religion or another throughout the violent history of man.
I like the thought that when man has played out his self-destructive part in the cosmic arena, the natural order of the Earth will quietly and completely erase his smudge.
And, as always, this is just my opinion.