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9-11: Ten Years Ago

I went hunting for a journal entry from ten years ago, and to my shock, I've been keeping a journal only since 2003, when I could have sworn I'd kept a journal online since 2001. But! I found an entry from two years later:

http://mtrxrefugee.diaryland.com/Remember.html

Our town dedicated a new memorial at the library today, namely, a chunk of iron from the World Trade Center towers. We haven't been to see it yet, but I'm planning to go to the library tomorrow and possibly leave some flowers there.

I'd post more about the ten years that have passed, about how the world has felt a little less safe, how people seem more divided than they ever were before, how I wish that the feeling of closeness and unity that we felt in the days after 9-11 had endured longer, but that's probing a bit too much into wounds I'd rather not touch. I would rather remember the bravery of the men and women who gave their all to help their brothers and sisters...

Not to say that I'm above snerking and shaking my head over this entry from Neil Gaiman's blog, where he shakes his head and snerks over a strange email he got after 9-11:

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/09/memory.html

Fanfic lit-crit meme, Day Seventeen

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