Well, despite my ranting regarding keeping a day of silence on 9/11, I actually did pretty much that thing, after that initial post. I didn’t stay offline — I ended up checking most of my regular haunts. But most folks, too, had little to say, aside from an initial commentary.
Actually, all things considered, at most of the places I visited it was a day curiously without rancor. 9/11 not only revealed that we in the US had been living in something of a fairyland of childish ignorance, but the reaction to it revealed some serious fissures in American self-image, vision, and political philosophy. For all the venom that has been spewed (from all sides) over the last two years, yesterday was remarkably calm.
What I did avoid was listening much to the radio. I listened to music, instead, courtesy of the van’s CD player.