#1 Ya know, on September 12, 2001, I went with some friends to the local blood bank. By then we knew it was futile, but it was...something. We were in line for about three hours before the blood bank officials brought in an American Airlines flight crew (in uniform) along with a phalanx of news photographers and dismissed the peasantry. While I waited, a nice lady gave me a red/white/blue ribbon to wear and I read the September 2001 issue of Readers' Digest. Cover story, the execution of Tim McVeigh.
Something told me even then that the gov't was a bit hasty... |