[Alkhin]

Thanks Tom! Did you add your story to the Smithsonian archive?? TomServo, I am with you, hon in not wanting to give any credence to the socialists that run the Smithsonian...but the way I see it is they've opened the doors for people like you and me to insert *our* account of history...and they would be stupid to exclude it once we have entered it in. Not much I can do about that...but if you go to the special collections section, you will find a tribute by someone who does not pull the punches. If the Smithsonian is willing to include that, I doubt they would do anything to exclude your point of view...and I think anyone reading those stories would quickly come to the realization that EVERYBODY knew...instantly, collectively, and with razor sharp clarity what September 11 was.

[TomServo]

but the way I see it is they've opened the doors for people like you and me to insert *our* account of history..

Last I heard, "our" account(s) didn't matter anymore. Didn't ya hear? Pearl Harbor was our fault, being the Yankee Imperialists dogs that we are. And we were equally at fault for nuking Japan. Screw the Smithsonian. You may get your account in now, but the truth will eventually be erased and our grandchildren will blame us for what happened on Sept 11th. All courtesy of the Smithsonian.

[tomkat]

no, i've not seen the Smithsonian site yet;
do you intend to place this thread there ?

while hoping this isn't too off-topic, here are a couple
of my FR posts after the manhattan trip on 30Sept.

i can still taste the air from that day,
and the cold hatred has only grown ...

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To: newwahoo; Hillary's Lovely Legs

what wahoo says is the absolute truth.

the dust of the dead is still in the air.

i inhaled the remains of some of them in a five hour
walk through lower Manhattan on september 30.

as no amount of National Geographic browsing can prepare one
for the magnificence of the Rocky Mountains,
so can no tv camera convey the atrocity that we have suffered.

33 posted on 10/28/01 2:39 PM Eastern by tomkat

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To: newwahoo

prior to seeing it first-person, it all had the feel of a movie.
a documentary, but a movie nonetheless.

the wind was coming in off the river that day, at times quite gustily,
and occasionally, while walking to the north of the towers' site,
that unmistakable odor was in the air...

i've tried to explain to others the sense i had of the
people around me down there on that day, and the closest
i've been able to come is being at a viewing with
thousands of fellow mourners.

it was quite somber, without being at all maudlin.
there were few tears.
part of that dust of those dead will travel with me
until it's my turn to join them ...

66 posted on 10/28/01 3:22 PM Eastern by tomkat

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To: Starrgaizr, all

Here are three photo albums I posted last September.

The first two are the work of others;
the third is of my own pilgrimage to lower Manhattan on a grey and rainy Sept. 30th.

May we never forget ...

Ground Zero - New York City - Anonymous Album 1 - 30 September 2001

Ground Zero - New York City - Anonymous Album 2 - 30 September 2001

Paying Respects at Ground Zero - New York City - 30 September 2001

138 posted on 4/3/02 4:05 AM Pacific by tomkat

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[tomkat]

remember being on this thread that day ?
it seems like yesterday, or half a lifetime ago ...

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To: all

I'm speechless, and shock was given a second helping when I heard about Barbara Olsen.
I met her when she came through Houston on a tour to promote her first book "Hell to Pay" ...