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 Taken from Twin fates on a towering day; Thoughts on September 11th 2001 on September 12th by Horace Coleman:
I fall asleep watching the late news: The mews of a teenage girl with 10 pairs of low-riding jeans and the means to buy thong panties. I wake to scenes seen around all the clocks: fluttering, heavy, human leaves and stacks of unbalanced blocks that used to be floors in buildings toppling in unseasonable falls. And, Pentagon puzzles being spilled.
I, you, we, see packs of staggering, fleeing, and rescuing people powdered with dust, blood and screams intercut with four (count 'em, 4!) views of planes plunging into the skyline. Sure enough reality TV for survivors now. A headline says: War has come home
Whip that National Missile Defense on those suicides swinging knives and box cutters and making sighs. "I can't believe it," people keep saying. Meaning, "My mind won't accept it until the T-shirts come out."
It'll take a little while for easy and vacuous smiles to reappear like spring flowers or frivolous weeds and to build new towers of smugness.... Read More
Also In This Issue:
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement on September 11 Attacks by VVAW
- From the National Office by Barry Romo
- From VVAW's National Steering Committee 10/27/01 by VVAW
- Notes From the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
- Fraggin' by Bill Shunas
- 600 Homeless Veterans Served with a Smile by Barry Romo
- Standdown Thankyou by Bill Branson
- Two Fundraisers, Two Successes by Bob Riggle and John Zutz
- Memorial Day, Zablocki Medical Center by Bob Riggle
- Veterans Memorial Dedicated by David Cline
- It's Good to be With Friends: Memorial Day in Chicago by Joe Miller
- Blessings and Responsibilities by Jack Surisook
- The Afro-Colombian Community: Caught in the Middle of the Armed Conflict in Colombia by Luis G. Murillo
- Twin fates on a towering day; Thoughts on September 11th 2001 on September 12th by Horace Coleman
- Reflecting on My Lai and Thanh Phong by Stephen Sinsley
- Dewey Canyon III by Mark Hartford
- John Kerry on Angry Young Men and War Criminals by Joe Miller
- VVAW Statement on Robert Kerrey by Clarence Fitch Chapter of VVAW
- VVAW 1970 by James May
- 'Hanoi Jane' and 'Thanh Phong Bob' by Joe Bangert
- Home from the War by Jim Willingham
- For DC Corporal, D Company, 41st Infantry, Operation Desert Storm by Dave Connolly
- China Is Right About the Spy Plane Incident by David Ewing
- U.S. Military Wages War Against Itself And Against The World by Robert Rabin
- A Shout For Peace by VVAW
- Not in Our Son's Name by Phyllis and Orlando Rodriguez
- Practical Advice on Organizing by David Cline (Reviewer)
- My View by John Zutz
- Patriotism by Dave Connolly
- The Promised Land, Nicaragua by Louis De Benedette
- Recollections - "Render Unto Caesar . . ." by Jerry Lembcke
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