tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9403471.post112664424121408173..comments2023-12-24T02:07:25.901+03:00Comments on The Reluctant Hermit: Remembering 9/11Ashish Gordehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105222512599129308noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9403471.post-1130474852247023132005-10-28T07:47:00.000+03:002005-10-28T07:47:00.000+03:00i got a phone call at about 530 am on september el...i got a phone call at about 530 am on september eleventh here in Oregon from my mother. turn on the television she crys, cnn. i do as she askes because, frankly, my mother crying frightens me, even now, when i am 30. her and i watch with silence between us over the phone as first one then the other tower falls. and we ask ourselves and each other, and many other people in the days months and years since "Why?" my mother said that our government is representitive of our people (and i suppose it is supposed to be) and there are some people who hate our governments policies so they hate the american PEOPLE by extension. i personally dont hate anyone. i dont understand how anyone could hate me never meeting me or knowing anything about me. how could they hate my infant son who is all smiles and laughter? or my teenage son who is all akward shyness? or my mother, who gardens passionately, and saves the lives of even spiders... setting them free in her garden. I KNOW not everyone from the middle east hates me. i KNOW not everyone from the middle east is a terrorist. I KNOW the not everyone from the middle east supports the horrible events of 9/11. i just wish everyone else KNEW that there really are innocents here. that neither kennedy nor bush, nor kerry nor rice speaks for all of us. we all have different dreams and lives and loves. as you are different from one another in your countrys we are also. i thank you for your commemorative post. it just reaffirms my beleif that good people exist everywhere, no matter what the media says.Dak-Indhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922284439644261724noreply@blogger.com