I was in NYC on 9/11, a few blocks from Ground Zero.
For the next few weeks and months, the city was united in standing up against the terrorists. A friend of mine was rescued by boat from Battery Park, and taken to Newark Hospital, where she saw a long line of what looked like drug thugs lined up at the hospital. She was frightened, until she learned that the Neward drug thugs had all gone to the hospital to give blood for the wounded—although there turned out not to be many wounded.
And for the next few weeks I found a different attitude in the subways. Normally you don’t make eye contact with strangers in the subway, but people were talking, including blacks and whites together. One black woman in the seat next to me told me about her three sons in the military.
Over the years since, that all fell apart. Giuliani did a great job of holding that spirit together, but since then, the Democrat politicians have destroyed it, and returned us to the usual race-baiting and other liberal ****. Bloomberg couldn’t take down the memorial sites, flowers, writings by schoolchildren in honor of dead firemen, and prayers from visitors any more quickly. I used to walk by the site of the Trade Towers regularly, and the change after Bloomberg came into office was astonishing.
Regretably, the people follow the lead of the politicians. But the people are not the primary source of this evil. It’s the politicians, putting them on the welfare plantation for their own greedy reasons.
Yes, I miss that sharing, caring feeling that surrounded us in the days after 9/11. No honking horns, you stuck in traffic and open your windows to talk to your neighbor in the car next to you. It was really a wondrous time (not taking into account the TT) Everyone knew someone that knew someone, on and on. We were united, race, religion nothing mattered except that we, as NY’ers were hurting.
That day was primary day and there was talk about Guiliani staying on for another run, Bloomy wasn’t having it. Then the SOB turns around, wheels and deals and he’s in for the 3rd term. I love NY but it is turning into a cesspool.