I’ve been saving some links to particularly striking 9/11-related web articles and blog entries, rather than pepper everyone with them all month long. I’ll start posting them here, in this entry, now, and as I (inevitably) run across more, I’ll updated them here, too.
I realize, by the way, that I’m indulging in just the sort of sappy sentimentality and emotion I was so decrying the Mass Media for. So be it. Know that at least from me it’s genuine.
- Dave Barry writes of the hallowed ground of Somerset Co., Pennsylvania, not that very far from Gettysburg.
- James Lileks writes of a little girl, his own daughter’s age.
- VodkaPundit urges us not to wallow, but to act.
- Lileks (natch) has a marvelous post (of course) just this morning on what the He of Today would tell the He of a Year Ago.
- Truth Laid Bear talks about how this was an attack, not an earthquake (can you tell the difference from the coverage), and, more importantly, there is victory in the ashes.
- I linked to this a while back, but this compilation of what’s know (via cell phone, mostly) of life within the WTC after the crashes is … moving.
- Mark Twain’s “War Prayer” is always worth a read.
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And he didn’t have anything on his site when I checked first thing in the morning, but SDB had some thought-provoking comments at his site, too, no surprise.