Wound from 911 Still Open

A nice commentary from Keith Olbermann on 911, how the government has forgotton about 911 and how without a memorial, the wound will always be open. A prime time ripping if I ever saw one. He talks about how after five years we still don’t have a memorial, and how he has not forgotten, after losing friends and colleagues and having relatives who were fire fighters, and how images are burned in his head after discovering two friends on the wall that had everyone still missing. And he said, we need the memorial so we can show the terrorists they did not change our lives and we will not be changed by the likes of them.

Posted by Jimmy Daniels Posted in: 911, Current Events, Politics No Comments » September 2006

91101 Birth of the Blogosphere

Interesting read on Wired news about the events on 911 helping to create blogging. People posting stories and links, pictures and more, all in hopes of getting the word out about what happened.

While phone networks and big news sites struggled to cope with heavy traffic, many survivors and spectators turned to online journals to share feelings, get information or detail their whereabouts. It was raw, emotional and new — and many commentators now remember it as a key moment in the birth of the blog.

When four planes were hijacked on a sunny fall morning, easy-to-use blogging services were still few and far between. Yet many who witnessed the horror of the attacks firsthand took to the keyboard to talk with the world.

Horrified Americans used e-mail, instant messages, any available communication tool. But weblogs meant large audiences, not just friends and family, could read those stories from the scene.

A site definitely worth checking out, September 11 Digital Archive, which maintains a historical catalog of noteworthy blog posts among 130,000 e-mails, audio recordings, video clips and photographs documenting the event.

Posted by Jimmy Daniels Posted in: 911, Blogging, Current Events No Comments » September 2006

My 911 Post

I wish I had something really profound to say on the subject, but all I have are the memories, watching the replays of the first airliner hitting one of the towers, and then watching live as the second hit the other tower. Sitting there on the couch, slackjawed and not believing what my eyes were showing me. The shock of the buildings collapsing and knowing many, many people were dying, and people were dying trying to help. Not knowing what to do next, and wondering how we could help. Lots of memories.

I feel for everyone who lost someone on that day and will remember it forever. My only hope, is that once we get into heaven, that God has a big video complex with recordings of everything that ever happened, his own Godtube, and we can get the answers to all of our questions. God Bless.

Posted by Jimmy Daniels Posted in: 911, Current Events No Comments » September 2006