You brought it all back. I'm not going to repeat my memories of that day and the immediate aftermath. Ralph Wessman published my account via a journal out in Tasmania, of all places. All I know is I was fine as long as I still worked in New York until Novvember 30, 2001. The panic attacks and chest pains began in January 2002 and I had to make myself go down to the site to look straight at my fear and force my way through it. A shrink I went to called it a mild form of PTSD, and I suppose he was right. It was a turning point in my economic life (it destroyed it) and affected my view of outside forces and relationships, a few of which continue to embarrass me. I am grateful I don't teach on Saturdays, otherwise I fear I would be doing my Aeneas act by compulsively retelling the story to students for whom 9/11 is a fading memory. Off the cuff--Hofstader wrote a book called The Paranoid Style In American Politics, and it's become entirely true. They are all out to get us, even if they're not. We seem to NEED enmity now as we never did before. It's as though the whole country has turned into Tail Gunner Joe. Enemies are everywhere. The good part is I like the police dogs.
Ken
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Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
"All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
--Francine du Plessix Gray
On Sep 9, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Here again, some images and words
> related to 9/11 and NYC.
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> 9/11+4 in pictures<http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home/lynda-and-hal/9-11-4>
> 9/11+ in words<http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home/lynda-and-hal/9-11-texts>
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> Hal Serving the tri-state area.
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