I've just had to pinch myself to make sure I'm not hallucinating. Is there really someone so pedantic and lacking in humour, wit and sentiment that s/he feels the need to intrude into what was designed to be a discussion over Larry's feelings about making a musical contribution to try to heal a riven country?
As a Brit I do apologise for the intrusion of someone I assume to be a fellow countryman.
I haven't felt much like contributing to any of the threads on 9/11; partly through feeling repelled by much of the mawkishness peddled by the media and partly through a reticence to intrude into the private grief of another nation.
As the anniversary has approached, however, I can't deny that I've dwelt more and more on what happened on that day and on its consequences for the world. More than ever for me, Donne's words resonate and I offer the silent prayer of an atheist that we have seen the worst and will one day be able to say we survived it with our humanity intact.
And Larry, I'm sure you have done your bit to remind people through their own music of that humanity. Keep playing.