Donkey v Elephant
You are free to think otherwise
But I choose to believe
It isn’t necessary
For the parties to work
Against each other.
Twenty Years
Twenty years later and this is still the only day in American history like this. (Except the burning of the White House, War of 1812, 8/24/14, a response to York.) That is what we felt in those days. In WWII this is what Europe looked like, a continent. This is what it looks like when war happens. This is what traumatized a nation. In twenty years many things have happened since. Incredibly, it took no time at all to forget how that day felt. No time at all, and there were people who argued it was staged. That’s the world we live in. No time at all and politicians started thinking, “We will lose power if this remains the narrative.” No time at all and the reality of a war became a preamble to twenty years of claiming it was America that turned aggressor. Twenty years and they still work to identify the bodies. Twenty years of victims. Twenty years, a lifetime for a new generation born after and growing up in the shadow of fallen towers. Twenty y...
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