Remembering 9/11
Today is the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attack in New York. Five years ago today, I turned on the TV for the bi-lingual news braodcast and the first image that I saw was the live footage of the first tower of the World Trade Center burning. Still couldn’t make up what it was all about, I pressed the record button on my VHS recorder, knowing that it’s an event of significance. Not long after, a second jetliner struck the second tower. I almost cried watching them burn and crumble as by this time I was already so angry at the people who could have done it. There are the usual suspects. It could not have been an accident. This is one reason why faith, specially the fanatical type, should be re-examined for its relevance in this rapidly shrinking world where we are neighbors to people of diverse cultural background. Tolerance should be a word the believers should keep to heart. It’s the word that is last on the minds of these religious fanatics. The people who perpetrated this crime seemed to have been peaceful citizens of their communities until that time, except that in their mind, they were blinded by their faith in a phantom god. This is what happens when we blindly believe all things taught us, specially by people with political agenda, with promises of paradise and threats of hell, our belief can lead us to some unimaginable deeds.
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September 13th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
In my college years I wrote my personal reaction about the 911 incident. Here is the URL,
http://cosmicmelancholy.blogspot.com/2005/06/poignant-nostalgia.html