Nameless one, allow me to wish you a happy birthday; like me, you probably completely lost your 2001 birthday in the wake of the disaster the day before.

I think your point about leaving the memorialization of 9-1-01 to those who were personally touched by it is an excellent one.

But since 9-11 has been the major piece of the fearmongering which fuels the administration's depradations, of course, as you say, they will squeeze it for anything they can get out of it.

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