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2008-09-12 Home Front: WoT

James Lileks - 9/11/2003

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Posted by Steve 2008-09-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 They would rather cheer the perfect devils than come to the aid of a compromised angel.

Wow, well said!

Posted by 49 Pan 2008-09-12 01:44|| 2008-09-12 01:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Lilek's' reflections on growing up as a tweener during the late Cold War mirror my own. Too young for duck and cover, but old enough for graphic depictions of the apocalypse, via Moscow.

I remember reading this column of his five years ago, and how it galvanized my understanding that my longtime moonbat "friends" were not friends at all, merely acquaintances with whom I had done fun things as a young guy and about whom I had fond memories of good times, and who had never grown - mentally or psychologically - beyond that college sophomore mentality.

Excised from my life, with no regrets.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-09-12 06:01|| 2008-09-12 06:01|| Front Page Top

#3 But what really kills her, really really kills her, is knowing that the youngest one doesn't remember daddy at all anymore. And she's the one who has his eyes.

wow. That one hit me hard. And not just for the 911 victims, but for all of the military members who died in the war. [wipes away tears]

no mo uro - Very well said and I hear ya. In the last month I finally acknowledged the loss of two people who were once good friends, for the very reasons you describe. I'm still sad over the loss. But the funny thing is that once I let go, I realized that there was a strange sense of relief, as if the weight of an albatross had been lifted from around my neck.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-12 06:22|| 2008-09-12 06:22|| Front Page Top

#4 What kind of a sick f*ck tells a group of kids something like that?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-12 09:05|| 2008-09-12 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 "What kind of a sick f*ck tells a group of kids something like that?"

Somebody who is not right with God. Thou shall not lie. Also, something about a mill stone comes to mind.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-09-12 17:36|| 2008-09-12 17:36|| Front Page Top

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