coffeeteaandme

OK, here's the thing: they shouldn't have made the holiday about the victims. Not and called it Patriot Day; that makes no sense. the people in those buildings weren't any particular ideology or creed - they were randomly chosen victims because they happened to be inside the symbol the terrorists wanted to destroy. That's it. The first responders - those people followed a creed. they were civil servants responding and serving in an act of war, and that's why Congress was a bunch of fuckers to deny them national benefits for what they suffered on that day. Above and beyond doesn't cover it, OK? I don't know if that creed makes them patriots, but it damn well made them Americans.

I remember Mr. Rogers talking about how to talk to children about disasters, how to help them deal with it. Coincidentally, the advice applies to any human who needs to keep their sanity when the buildings down the block are about to fall on your workplace.

That's why it should be about the responders. That's why kids all over the country bring cookies, write letters, make gifts for police and firemen on this day. That's why, really, it's about them.