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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Solon who wrote (53049)11/6/2006 2:16:37 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
>>Did you not see 9/11?

Get off your high horse and touch the real world...<<

Solon -

When I lived in New York, from 1978 to 1999, I worked, at various times, in both of the Twin Towers, in the hotel that was in between them, and even at 7 WTC, where I helped build the computer network for Salomon Brothers as the building was being completed. All those places were very real to me.

I happened to be back in New York on 9/11. I woke up that morning to a breathtaking blue sky, then watched as the nightmare unfolded. I walked the streets of Manhattan in the days following the attack. As I did, it was impossible to keep myself from looking up every few minutes to see the smoke rising over lower Manhattan. I smelled the stench of the burning towers from Brooklyn. I looked directly down into the smoking wreckage of the WTC from an airplane taking off from Newark when I was finally able to get a flight out to come back to Los Angeles.

9/11 is no abstraction to me. So please don't take such an imperious tone with me about "the real world".

I've said what I have to say on this subject. I've made myself quite plain. You're free to disagree with me, but I'm not going to sit here and quibble over this with you anymore.

- Allen
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