TheNewWorld2011
Introduction/Definition/etc
Probably more have died on the roads,
than in the attacks so things like
from a bike touring list,
http://www.kenkifer.com/newworld/index.htm
may give an alternative,
we had a big rush when it was an unknown
enemy, back in Sputnik days,
why can't we be motivated to do something
better?
Body
I was in the Washington DC suburbs when Sept 11, 2001
happened, awaking late, Not on a commute to work / school
in the new season like a lot of people...
I used to work, and at one place might have seen
the plane hit, or been hit, depending on the commuting
route, so it's a little personal, not as much as those
lost, or relatives of those lost, but if you look at the
losses mentioned on this site, from disability, poverty,
homelessness, bike accidents, and just plain hatred
of people different, you might discover what happens
when a country wants revenge, the collateral damage,
in terms of people left to die, unsupported because they
are blind to their neighbors, friends and loved ones...
Our economy is based on oil, and I don't like to think
of what happens if that is unplugged, but I don't
mind things like this
http://www.kenkifer.com/newworld/index.htm
that give an alternative, albeit a little Utopian,
it could include a Brave in front of it,
and realizing the author made what he could
of his life, later cut short by a drunk driver,
just released from the legal system,
one of many bikers who are killed by
many other's carelessness,
( see http://www.wjla.com/search/?key=Bicycle
for some possibly related things,
one recently hit in NE while wearing a helmet
GoPro video camera by a pickup truck,
which some consider attempted murder,
with a vehicle...)
I recently watched
http://video.pbs.org/video/1174233882
with mixed feelings, a loner kid, (seemed
like Asperger's to me), later scientist turned
soldier, then public figure, and what the country,
other competing scientists, and the "court"
did to him, following his service...
I'd prefer to remember the good things,
my father trying to bike even with heart problems,
for people he cared about, but with so many losses,
it's really difficult...
FootNote: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kifer
and that the rememberance is possibly going away
on WikiPedia, like Ghost bikes and other things,
we are erased, while others are commemorated,
perpetually, in more systemic violence...
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
http://tinyurl.com/natashapettigrew2011
for another local, a Green Party candidate,
killed by a driver, her mother carries
the torch, some now...
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