Today is the 9/11. Since that Tuesday of 11 September 2001 in New York, thirteen years have passed, but the memory is still fresh. For days, a gigantic pillar of smoke rose from the Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Building walls and fences in the Lower Manhattan were covered with hundreds and thousands of missing person posters often accompanied by flowers and lit candles in front of them. So many of us since then had to attend funerals after funerals of our coworkers, friends, relatives and family - without their bodies. In their places, whatever memorabilia of the deceased - footballs, baseballs, baseball gloves, baseball caps, favourite team jerseys, dolls, books, photos ... a lot of photos. They were funerals of - not the bodies of the deceased - our sanity, reason, and faith. They were not only the funerals of the bodiless deceased but of our collective selves. And not too many of us since then have managed to resurrect out of those graves we had helplessly plunged in. Some of us still walk among the living as the ghosts of anger, despair, hopelessness and indifference. It took me over 10 years to finally accept 19 hijackers who had also perished with 246 passengers as a part of the casualties of this tragedy. That they too are, to an extent, a part of the greater web of tragedies that had led to and have since spiralled out of the 9/11. And no matter how angry I am about them and furious of what they had done, there can be no exception in honouring the dead. So today, with my sincere apologies to those who might protest and cannot accept this, I honour all 2,996 deaths of the 9/11 - including 19 hijackers. In honouring, I remember their lives, what they could have been and meant to their loved ones - to us - only if were we not in this absurd world and had we not been swayed and conflicted in this human tragedy. And I remember all the deaths - the U.S. military, the Coalition military, enemy combatants and civilians - of Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Human life is human life; its loss its loss. No one lifes loss should be considered more or less significant than anothers. All loss is tragic. To all, R.I.P. 11 September 2014 ------- 2,996, Total deaths of the 11 September 2001: 2,606 in the World Trade Center Towers 246 on 4 planes 125 at the Pentagon 19 hijackers The Iraq War: 4,804 Coalition military deaths (4,487 American soldiers) 110,591 to 120,816 Iraqi civilian deaths The War in Afghanistan: 3,469 Coalition military deaths (2,344 American soldiers) 21,000 Afghan civilian deaths
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:40:50 +0000
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