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Thursday, May 30, 2002 Today is Memorial Day (the "real" one, not the "observed" one.) It was a day of mixed emotion for me. This morning they held a ceremony at the WTC in New York marking the end of the cleanup there. The WTC remembrance was nicely done I thought, no words, only images, and the toll of bells at 10:29am, the time when the second plane crashed into the WTC. There were firemen escorting an empty stretcher with an American flag on it into an ambulance, which then drove off slowly from the site. The firemen cried. It was sad. This afternoon was my Graduation from community college. The commencement speaker was a retired Fireman. There was an American flag, too, but no stretcher or ambulance. At the end of the ceremony they released a flock of white doves which flew away after circling a couple times. It was cool. So I started my day in sadness and ended it in happiness. And a little bit of sitting-in-the-sun-wearing-black crankiness. I just hope it doesn't take as long to get my next degree as it took to get this one.
[ 7:54:00 PM ]
Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
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