I watched the CBS special on 9/11 last night (Does anyone know what it was called? Maybe just 9/11), and I have several comments.
– For some reason, I twinged every time I saw 9/11, brought to you by NEXTEL. I am not one of those fruity anti-capitalist bastards who rails against industry, but I just don’t think that if I were a Nextel officer I would allow that sort of word association to be a possibility.
– The Fire Department reminded me of my old platoon. Buncha tough guys with big hearts doing jobs no one else will do for less money than they should be paid. That kinda comaraderie is hard to find anywhere outside the military and para-military groups).
– The sound of the impact from the jumpers was horrifying.
– The two Frenchmen that filmed the show reminded me what I had already learned when I lived in Germany for three years. Most Europeans are good people, and very much like us. They love America just like we love Paris and we love London. There really is no great animus between us or towards each other. It is their leaders who are the twerps we despise….
– All I could really think when it was all over (despite being drained and thinking it had been VERY tastefully done) was thos F