Another year ago today

[cyrano]

On this day, years ago, there was an attack. It was led by men who feared democracy. Twelve thousand people, people who the day before had been friends, fathers, mothers, co-workers, were never heard from again. The president died defending his country, with a rifle in his hand. They say he finally turned the rifle on himself, after a farewell speech on the last radio station left to the voice of freedom.
On the other side of the world, men rejoiced.
Tyranny had won a victory.

Twenty-eight years later, in one of the universe's cruel coincidences, there was another attack, led by men of hatred, using innocents as weapons. It was the first major attack in the United States since Oklahoma City. In sympathy and in fierce defiance, the country joined together. Many countries joined together, as we discovered what they knew--the terror of the unexpected explosion, of death without warning.
And on the other side of the world, men rejoiced.
The 'sleeping giant' has awakened. Hopefully this will be a crushing defeat for tyrants.

Comments

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

I admit, I had to look it up anyway--but did you mean 28 years later?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah... yeah, it's obvious maths are not my strong point. q:

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Let's see, that would make you a Paragraph Person (as opposed to a Spreadsheet Person). Were you a liberal arts major?

I'm testing a theory.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Don't look at me; I learned to use a spreadsheet before a word processor. (My father's an accountant.)

At any rate, I just wanted to be sure I had the right event.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure most of my majors were Liberal Arts. English, Film as Lit, Psychology, Drama, Political Science and History. I think that covers most of them.
Unless you were asking Lance.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

As I replied to you (and not Lance) I assumed you would assume that I meant you. (Yes, I will stop with all the assumptions.)

Yes, those are liberal arts.

Congratualations! You conform!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooo!

(As an aside, I think I got the 'eighteen years later' figure in there because I couldn't get Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band out of my head while I was writing.)

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Even better, a link to what he *is* talking about would've been useful to those of us who were only 2 in 1973. :)

P.S.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

(I *still* don't know what he's referring to in the first one)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/ is a little overkill, but still useful.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=september+11+1973&spell=1 is pretty good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A716591 is a pretty good BBC recounting, in objective journalist style.
http://www.thebaffler.com/cooperexcerpt.html is less objective, but I found it very affecting.