I wasn't going to do this, but I've been thinking about it all day.. and I make it a ritual to visit the September 11th Victim Site on every anniversary.. to remember those that died.. to honor them.. to never forget.
And it never fails that this anniversary rolls around and it brings the pain of remembrance and makes me increasingly angry.. I'm angry that:
* There were 2,974 deaths in the World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77, United Airlines Flight 175, United Airlines Flight 93 and the Pentagon.
(These deaths do not include the 19 hijackers, who don't deserve counting)
* By December 2001 there were at least 3,767 Afghan civilian deaths (and many more since)
* As of 9 September 2007 there were 617 coalition deaths in Afghanistan: 372 American, 76 British, 70 Canadian, 25 German, 21 Spanish, 11 French, 10 Dutch, 9 Italian, 5 Romanian, 4 Danish, 2 Estonian, 2 Norwegian, 2 Swedish, 1 Australian, 1 Czech, 1 Finnish, 1 Polish, 1 Portugese and 1 South Korean.
* As of 9 September 2007 there were 1,553 Americans wounded in Afghanistan, and 52 Germans (among many others)
* As of 26 August 2007, the Lancet Study estimates that 654,965 Iraqi civilians have been killed since March 2003. There have been 3,760 American deaths and 27,279 wounded. At least 933 civilian contractors have been killed and nearly 13,000 wounded. 102 journalists have died, along with 39 of their support workers. 88 aid workers have been killed, 2 Australians, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danish, 5 El Salvadorians, 2 Estonians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 3 Latvians, 2 Dutch, 21 Polish, 2 Romanians, 4 Slovakians, 1 South Korean, 11 Spanish, 2 Thai, 18 Ukrainians, 168 British, and 1 from Kazakhstan.
All this death.. and so many lives changed forever.. and yet..
THAT MURDEROUS F**CKING BUTCHER OSAMA BIN LADEN IS STILL ALIVE AND AT-LARGE
So yes, I AM ANGRY. I WANT JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF SEPTEMBER 11TH.
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