[Grovenet] 100-year Anniversary of 9/11

[Ed Davie]

And no one seems particularly concerned for those 
10s of thousands of innocents in Iraq that have 
died since our invasion. Especially not the 
current administration! Seems like a pretty big 
pay back for 3000 people here.
Ed
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron D'Eau Claire
  To: 'Forest Grove local interests list'
  Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [Grovenet] 100-year Anniversary of 
9/11


  Thank you Geri (and Bud for the earlier 
reminder).

  There's something especially sad for me about 
observing 9/11 that has little
  to do with the shock of the horrible loss of 
life that day, or the horrible
  way they died. Rather it's about the tens of 
thousands of other Americans
  who met similar, unnecessary horrible deaths in 
2001 that do not receive
  similar concern or remembrance. Those were 
women, mothers, children and men
  who were literally torn limb-from-limb, burned 
alive or crushed to death in
  2001, and similar numbers have been repeated 
every year before and since.
  They too left families devastated by the loss of 
loved ones and
  breadwinners. Children left behind, often maimed 
and disfigured who lost
  parents, brothers, sisters and their security.

  We don't award them public funds to help the 
survivors get on with their
  lives. We don't erect any monuments to their 
horrible end. We don't even
  seem to care that we could have prevented their 
terrible fates. We keep
  right on doing what we've always done as off 
those lives mattered not at
  all. Yet, almost ten such people died for every 
9/11 death. About 40,000 in
  all in 2001 alone.

  I'm not speaking of those struck by a terrible 
disease or such calamity. I'm
  speaking of the innocents who, like those that 
morning of 9/11 six years
  ago, were healthy and vital; they going on about 
their lives like any other
  day when they were killed or mutilated in a 
traffic collision.

  We have the power to prevent almost every one of 
those. We simply lack the
  will. What does it say about American society?

  Let's keep 9/11 in perspective. In spite of the 
horrible carnage, it was
  simply a little "bump" in the horror we allow 
our fellow citizens to suffer
  every year little more than a brief "tsk-tsk" 
when we see the news. Unless
  it was one of our loved ones. Then we're alone 
in our loss, left to pick up
  the pieces as best we can with little more than 
a sympathetic glance from
  those who know of our tragedy.

  Ron D'Eau Claire



  -----Original Message-----
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[mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
  Behalf Of Geri
  Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:05 AM
  To: GroveNet
  Subject: [Grovenet] 100-year Anniversary of 9/11


  No, that's not a typo.  There really is a 
100-year 9/11 anniversary:

       http://tinyurl.com/lsvup

       "A brief history of September 11, 1906: the 
Birth of Satyagraha

       "Adapted by NP volunteer Derek Mitchell & 
NP staff from the writings of
  Professor Michael Nagler, Professor emeritus and 
founder of the Peace and
  Conflict Studies program at University of 
California, Berkeley.

       " 'During my half-century of experience, I 
have not yet come across a
  situation when I had to say ... that I had no 
remedy in terms of
  non-violence.' - Mahatma Gandhi

       "One hundred years ago a historic meeting 
took place in Johannesburg,
  South Africa, that would change human history. . 
. ."


  Geri

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