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Jacqueline Kamel
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When I saw an image of this front page on the internet, I thought it was from 100 years ago.
And then I got my copy.
Every year on the date, the 3,000 victims of September 11th are read aloud at the World Trade Center.
It takes 3 hours. If we were to read the names of each person who has died of Covid-19 so far, it would take over 4 days, without stopping. It would cover each Sunday issue for over the next two years.
Today I read 1% of those names.
Each of those names was allowed half a sentence to describe them.
Half a sentence for a lifetime on the front page of The New York Times.
I picked out some of my favorites:
-her backyard birds ate right from her hand
-could fix almost anything
-first black woman to graduate Harvard Law school
-quick with his fists in the ring
-her will was indomitable
-he could spit a watermelon seed halfway across a double lot
-agent who turned on the CIA
-her favorite quote was I am as good as you are, and as bad as I am
-cancer survivor who lived as a deacon
-nothing delighted him more than picking up the bill
-saved 56 Jewish families from the Gestapo
-could be a real jokester
-thought it was important to know a persons life story
-maestro of a steel-pan band
-saw friends at their worst and made them their best
-engineer behind the first 200mph stock car
-discovered his true calling when he started driving a school bus
-made the best Baklava ever
-emergency room doctor who died in his husbands arms
-leader in integrating schools
-architect behind Bostons City Hall
-shared his produce with food banks and neighbors
-family believed she would have lived the traditional Navajo lifespan of 102 years.
-loved his wife and said yes dear a lot
-mother to a generation of AIDS patients
-worked long hard hours and still made time for everyone
-walked across the Golden Gate Bridge on opening day
-liked his bacon and hash browns crispy
-more adept than many knew
-would stay awake the whole night shift because she didnt want anyone to die alone
-freed from life in prison
-her last words were thank you
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Seven small towns I thought no one else had heard of.
Six women who reminded me of my mother.
Five people my age.
Four holocaust survivors.
Three 9/11 responders.
Two couples who died together.
One person Ive met.
And a 5 year old girl.
They didn't get a funeral.
They didn't get to say goodbye.
I've been in my apartment for 71 days. I've cried four times.
Three of those times, was while I read this.
Have fun at your barbecue.
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(9,782 posts)trocar
(243 posts)KS Toronado
(17,344 posts)Meowmee
(5,164 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)sadly lost. So much to give, and they gave. Honorable people, quietly living the best lives they could for themselves and their loved ones. So tragic to lose these wonderful people. If only we had a REAL president in the WH. One who reads daily briefings as part of the job, instead of golfing and watching Fox gnews. I put the blame squarely on HIM, the orange anus. The enabling gop is second to blame.
kag
(4,079 posts)I despise him and all of his enablers.
kacekwl
(7,022 posts)our war time president will be visiting many of the victims of his war on this Memorial day.
RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)Thank you.
KSNY
(315 posts)Danascot
(4,694 posts)Now I will never have the chance.
Joinfortmill
(14,467 posts)marble falls
(57,260 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)I have no intention of celebrating it because it celebrates a government that turned its back on the people. In fact I might see if I can work that day and see if I can use the holiday hours at some other point.
marble falls
(57,260 posts)pazzyanne
(6,558 posts)None of our tragedies should become irrelevant, which we unfortunately do. We all need to be more mindful!
panader0
(25,816 posts)Recommended.
Fla Dem
(23,765 posts)Seven small towns I thought no one else had heard of.
Six women who reminded me of my mother.
Five people my age.
Four holocaust survivors.
Three 9/11 responders.
Two couples who died together.
One person Ive met.
And a 5 year old girl.
They didn't get a funeral.
They didn't get to say goodbye.
I've added They didn't get to hear, "I love you" one last time.
keithbvadu2
(36,936 posts)Time enough between each hole of golf for Dotard to read one or two of those names.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)JudyM
(29,280 posts)demigoddess
(6,645 posts)will be missed and mourned no matter what age they die. These people will obviously be missed. By the whole world.