"Never Forget"?

No, no American can forget what happened downtown a few years ago. What happened was beyond words. And I remember being scared that my dad was on Wall Street and that something could have happened to him. I remember him picking me up in a cab with soot on his clothes and shoes, wearing a mask around his neck that must've covered his face. I remember crossing the Queensboro Bridge and looking down across the island and seeing black clouds rising from the lowest part of it.

I won't forget these things but I cannot help but be appalled by the way this country grieves shamelessly and publicly, for the whole world to see. What have we learned from this day? Nothing. Have we not also killed scores of people in vain? And so in times of grief, we expect even our anguish to prevail, to take importance over the pain of all those families destroyed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine; all those lives ruined because this administration gave the okay for it. They were all human, and they all suffered. This is what I'm trying to keep in perspective.

Today Bush gives the okay to allow raids in the NWFP? By planning to bomb more people, does that signal respect for the dead?

Read the names of those that perished seven years ago. Read them and remember them. But also remember that all of those people that were bombed to hell or massacred had names too, but no one will ever read them for the world to remember.