re: #90 Blind Frog Belly White

I have a friend who lives on Long Island and worked right across the street from the WTC. Her office was on the 40th floor, so she got a full view of what happened. She and her coworkers made it out of the building and to the street. What she saw there was simply horror. People burned, she saw people leaping out of windows, and she recalls dragging a screaming and sobbing co-worker away from the mess because her boyfriend was basically in the place where the plane hit WTC 1. 14 yrs later she and her husband still unplug from everything for a couple of days around this time and just avoid any real reminders. Mostly because of the bullshit pandering and politicizing of this day.

I understand a need for some reverence, but I don’t quite get the need for memorials in places that weren’t hit that day or never even had anyone from that place lost on that day. My friends call it fetishizing death and co-opting grief as an excuse to hate. And if my Facebook feed today was any indication, they aren’t wrong. I just unfollowed almost everyone, more may end up just gone if this shit doesn’t stop. I’ve lost so many friends over this sort of crap in the last 2 years, it’s so sad. These aren’t stupid people either, but damn. Most of them used to be fairly liberal, and over the years they’ve all just went nuts. Sigh. I hate it.