I don't need to tell you what day it is. But I won't admonish you to spend a single second in silence, remembering what those butchers and assholes did fourteen years ago.
Remember, certainly. How could one ever forget?
But do not bow your heads. Honor the fallen by holding your head up. Take up arms in your own way by living your life to the fullest. Walk around with your face uncovered and your soul free from guilt. Play music. Look at art. Draw. Sculpt. Write books. Dance. Have sex. Drink, if you have a mind to - alcohol, coffee, rainwater... Do whatever it is that they say you can't do without breaking one of their asinine rules.
Be free and celebrate your freedom.
Don't let them have even one inch of your life.
A moment of silence? Fuck that shit. Live your life and be free.
Shout it from the rooftops.
"Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?" I see it. Do you?
Damn straight!
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ReplyDeleteOn 9/12/2001, I applied for a passport. No terrorist was going to stop me from traveling.
I was the only one there. The clerk looked shell-shocked. I doubt she understood my reasoning. Of course, I probably didn't tell her.