Operation Find Don [trackback to TomatoNation.com]

So I'm sitting at my desk at "work" [BWAHAHAHA -- The Boss comes back tomorrow so this is the last day for this] and, since I got lambasted by AJbro -- who also happens to be frogprofbro, but I guess he doesn't want to brag -- for not posting since last month, I thought I'd better do so.

I've been catching up with TomatoNation [a longtime favorite/bookmark], and the author, Sars [rhymes with "scares"], writes the most heart-wrenching 9/11 essays annually since that day. She has also, ever since then, been trying to find a man named Don who accompanied her on the trek crosstown as they made their respective ways home from the horror that had become downtown Manhattan. So this is my weensy contribution to Operation Find Don, in the hopes that he -- or someone who knows him -- will read this [yeah, sure ... but 6 degrees, right?] and finally get in touch with Sars so that she can at LAST buy him that beer.

MSNBC had the brilliant idea of running their 2001 coverage all day yesterday -- as if anyone needed any reminding -- and although I watched for about 6 minutes, that's all I could take before I got the same ready-to-vomit feeling I'd had 6 years ago in the UT Student Health Center as I watched the Towers come down in real-time. Didn't we see that enough, OVER and OVER and OVER for days -- weeks -- on end, the first time?! On the other hand, I heard some neo-con radio talk-show host ask last night if we hadn't had enough "major" remembrance events by now; if we shouldn't start "toning down" the memorial services all over the country. HELL NO, I say ... the services aren't for us, you fool, they're for the families of the victims, who won't EVER have enough "closure" or time for memorial services, because their loved ones were snatched away from them without the "luxury" of a goodbye kiss, or a last phone call in most cases, or anything to hang on to in terms of "remembrance." What an idiot. Maybe the country feels like it needs to move on, especially with a war going on [and I'm not going there, believe me] -- but as long as there is somewhere for the families to congregate, somewhere for the first responders to gather to remember their fallen brothers and sisters, then we continue to have these memorial services. It's like asking Holocaust survivors to start forgetting about the Shoah -- how long is long enough? It's long enough when THEY say it's long enough. Not some damn fool in front of a microphone.