Ten years ago...
...I started a blog. My first blog post was on September 10, 2001. It was a silly little post - just a quick introspective on what it felt like to be growing up and becoming independent (sort of), and some weird little poem about an ant.
(Oh, just go read the silly post. I'll wait.)
Of course, we all know what happened the next day. I've mentioned before how what was supposed to be (and eventually became) a digital repository for all of my ranting and rambling ended up being a time capsule of how we felt and how the world changed on and after 9/11.
I never wanted the war(s) that followed. I, like everyone else, just wanted justice. From September 13, 2001:
Ten years ago I heard the news when my roommate came back to the dorms instead of going to class. Tonight, I heard the news via text message, checked The New York Times online to confirm, watched the president's address live from the White House website, then posted a status on Facebook.
But I remembered to come back here and write.
I know that earlier in the year I had big plans for this tenth anniversary year. Revisiting old posts, returning to my commentary on pop culture and politics, trying some new things out too. As usual, life has gotten in the way and I just haven't found the time or energy to convince myself that I had something interesting enough to say that would warrant a post.
But this...to quote our Vice-President, it's "a big fucking deal!"
I can't say that I'm necessarily happy that bin Laden has been killed. I guess that it's a good thing that he's gone, but I worry about the ramifications. Does this mean the end of Al Qaeda and their particular brand of terror? Will we end operations in Afghanistan and bring our troops home for good? Will there be retaliation against us?
Of course, we do not know the answers. We can only hope for peace and hope that many will go to sleep tonight feeling a little bit better, knowing that justice has been served. It took nearly ten years, and it doesn't taste all that great, but justice has been served.
(Oh, just go read the silly post. I'll wait.)
Of course, we all know what happened the next day. I've mentioned before how what was supposed to be (and eventually became) a digital repository for all of my ranting and rambling ended up being a time capsule of how we felt and how the world changed on and after 9/11.
I never wanted the war(s) that followed. I, like everyone else, just wanted justice. From September 13, 2001:
W. is saddling up on his star spangled high horse and is ready to blow the middle east to kingdom come. and as much as i want to see justice for this nation and this horrible tragedy, i'm not ready for a war. enough innocent people have died...do really need more? i mean, all of these crazy little countries have enough nukes to obliterate the planet, and we're gonna go in there, guns blazing, and kill us some people? i mean, if we so much as breathe on someone the wrong way, we're dead. we're talking about a fucking WAR, people! air raids, bomb shelters...all of the stuff we used to chuckle at in the history books because there was a time when we believed that it could never happen. i guess i'm a pacifist...a hippie...there's got to be something we can do besides go to war. let's just find that bin laden fucker and torture his ass...one day for every person that was killed...let's make him watch the shit that we've been seeing...let's have every american kick him in the balls...twice...anything but a war.Well, we didn't get to torture him or have every American kick him in the balls, but we found Osama bin Laden today. And now he is dead.
Ten years ago I heard the news when my roommate came back to the dorms instead of going to class. Tonight, I heard the news via text message, checked The New York Times online to confirm, watched the president's address live from the White House website, then posted a status on Facebook.
But I remembered to come back here and write.
I know that earlier in the year I had big plans for this tenth anniversary year. Revisiting old posts, returning to my commentary on pop culture and politics, trying some new things out too. As usual, life has gotten in the way and I just haven't found the time or energy to convince myself that I had something interesting enough to say that would warrant a post.
But this...to quote our Vice-President, it's "a big fucking deal!"
I can't say that I'm necessarily happy that bin Laden has been killed. I guess that it's a good thing that he's gone, but I worry about the ramifications. Does this mean the end of Al Qaeda and their particular brand of terror? Will we end operations in Afghanistan and bring our troops home for good? Will there be retaliation against us?
Of course, we do not know the answers. We can only hope for peace and hope that many will go to sleep tonight feeling a little bit better, knowing that justice has been served. It took nearly ten years, and it doesn't taste all that great, but justice has been served.
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