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Originally Posted by charlene
8 years ago in Orillia Lightfoot faced his own mortality at age 63.
7 years ago Warren Zevon lost his life to cancer at age 56.
22 years ago Keith Moon, drummer for the Who died of a drug overdose at age 31.
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When I spotted that are moderator person had replied today ("911" in Americaspeak,because unlike most of the sane world the americans use the reversed date convention so that what a Canuck or Brit understands by
11/9 or 11th September to an American has to be written 9/11 a handily remembered sequence since 911 just so happens to be the police fire/ambulance emergency phone number used in the USA which is therefore emblazoned on the local cop cars. Conversely in the UK for perfectly valid reasons connected with how ones fingers are inserted in one of the
"elder Jones" rotary dial telephone the common emergency number is 999.
Whatever 9/11 in history is another day of infamy perpetrated by misguided religious zealots in the name of God, I believe thus adding to the huge total of sins against humanity attributable to religion. end of religious discussion
I was reminded of 9/11 today when we drove north to Nutley NJ for a birthday celebration from where earlier on a perfectly clear day it was possible to see across the Hudson to Manhatten and today the Empire State Building was particularly prominent. Then returning after dark all the way back to our home town down the Garden State Parkway a memorial tribute vertical beam of light rising from Ground Zero was clearly visible and were it not for the trees in our back yard (which faces towards the East I would have obtained a photo to display here. But it would not have been anywhere near as good as this shot taken from the New Jersey side that also shows Lady Liberty
However this evening from every angle that I could see from there was only a single shaft of light but I had previously seen the pair representing the two towers that were felled 9 years ago (a month after my sister and family had gone to the top of one tower).