I’ve been busy on other things today so just got around to seeing
what my favorite bloggers have done on 9/11. Lots of good stuff, butConfederate Yankee’s post, Day of Denial, is really excellent:
They continue to mock the moment when our President found out that a
sneak attack broader in scope and scale than Pearl Harbor was under
way. They mock him for showing the same shock and dismay we all felt. They mock him
for being moved near to tears as the realization set in that thousands
of innocent Americans were dead or dying and that he, the most powerful
single man on the planet, was powerless to stop it.They belittle our pain as a nation, as if only those who had direct friends and family die had a right to grieve, feel pain, or remorse, or anger and resolve.
They lash out against those who do remember what happened under that bright blue September sky, and preemptively lash out against those who would remember future attacks before they’ve even come to pass.
They refer to memorial services as pornography, and seek to belittle every remembrance, every solemn moment, every tear, every voice raised in anger.
Read the comments if you want to see denial in human ? well, sort of ? form.
REMINDER:
The Confederate Yankee, Bob Owens, is one of eight North Carolina
bloggers who will be on panels at the John Locke Foundation’s blogger
conference on Oct. 7. For more information on Carolina FreedomNet 2006,
go here. Scott Johnson of Powerline blog will also be there as keynote speaker for the luncheon on Saturday.
