remembering 911
Four years ago today I was fast relishing a new found taste for cold sweet beer. Seated across me in the seedy pub near our old office were a couple of colleagues, each holding a glass of watered-down beer not unknown to happy hours revelers. Their eyes were fixed at the television in the pub, watching in fascinated horror at the replays of September 11.
I watched along, pretending to understand the impact of such an action upon the free land of America. Actually at that time I couldn’t really give a shite; I didn’t know that the Twin Towers existed in the first place nor the role of the Pentagon in the US. Back then, I didn’t even know how to drive to Midvalley.
Now I know a bit more things, I understand a little better. Almost 3,000 killed and many more injured in an in-your-face series of coordinated attacks, a most devastating state of affairs that would prove costly later on. Heroes were born, names remembered, spirit and shields up.
Never forget.
Who remembers October 25, December 1989 or October 2001?
Take heart – you can’t really choose your country’s foreign policies.
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Hi Suanie, how weird is this? I totally forgot that yesterday was 9/11. Only occurred to me today morning when watching the news.
How strange.
maybe coz there are more things to remember kua… like my upcoming birthday…
Who remembers this?
I haven’t forgotten your birthday!
What’s USA though?
Oh, wait, they are that irrelevant place.
(Just getting them back for their comment about UN being irrelevant)
ok lemme be VERY VERY STUPID. october 25 i remember cos its my birthday.
hahahah ok i go die now.
On the last nite. Sad thing that foreign policy. Nevermind al-Qaeda doesn’t roam freely in Afghanistan or all three Greneda, Panama and Afghanistan have more civil liberties and political rights than us Malaysians…