This was for me, the moment when I lost it re: 9/11....and still do

[Hamlette]

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/09/today.html
(I didn't read the comments, just play the YouTube)

Maybe we will return someday to a place where the world seems to have some good in it.

[Christa]

1. Thank you for posting it

I am in tears here :(

[babylonsister]

2. Nom. You just made me cry again. All that squandered goodwill

because of the criminals in charge. I was out of the country during 9/11 and obviously felt awful. People from many countries were so kind and generous, and as appalled as we were at this madness.

[blogslut]

3. yep

I went and searched for that one for my blog. That was a hell of a thing. The world was on our side. And then...

[uppityperson]

4. Maybe someday.

thank you for the video

[Subdivisions]

5. You got me. Has our anthem ever been played by another

country's band before that day?

[drmom]

6. It makes me heartsick ...

...to think of the possibilities if we had gone down another path. Clearly 9/11 was a turning point for humankind. What a shame that it has turned out the way it has.

[yodermon]

7. I saw that repoted by Peter Jennings

and he had tears in his eyes after the clip, saying that this Band had never, EVER played another country's anthem. 'Twas unheard of.

That's when I personally lost it for the first time, too.

And why I am personally filled with a gibbering rage at the neocon cabal that squandered this goodwill.

[Hamlette]

8. I'd forgotten about it...until I saw it today...

I remember when I first heard it, I was in the car with the radio playing. I had to pull over I was crying so hard.

And yes, the loss, not of the towers which was bad but we could relatively overcome, but the loss of good will. I posted this earlier today which also points to the outrage that is this admin:

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/opinion/10rich.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fFrank%20Rich

At the National Cathedral prayer service on Sept. 14, 2001, President Bush found just the apt phrase to describe this phenomenon: “Today we feel what Franklin Roosevelt called ‘the warm courage of national unity.’ This is the unity of every faith and every background. It has joined together political parties in both houses of Congress.” What’s more, he added, “this unity against terror is now extending across the world.”

The destruction of that unity, both in this nation and in the world, is as much a cause for mourning on the fifth anniversary as the attack itself. As we can’t forget the dead of 9/11, we can’t forget how the only good thing that came out of that horror, that unity, was smothered in its cradle.

When F.D.R. used the phrase “the warm courage of national unity,” it was at his first inaugural, in 1933, as the country reeled from the Great Depression. It is deeply moving to read that speech today. In its most famous line, Roosevelt asserted his “firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” Another passage is worth recalling, too: “We now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.”

What followed under Roosevelt’s leadership is one of history’s most salutary stories. Americans responded to his twin entreaties — to renounce fear and to sacrifice for the common good — with a force that turned back economic calamity and ultimately an axis of brutal enemies abroad. What followed Mr. Bush’s speech at the National Cathedral, we know all too well, is another story.

[lse7581011]

9. Just Got Goosebumps!

Thanks for reminding me!

[maddezmom]

10. thanks for posting

Seems like a century ago. :(

[Hamlette]

11. doesn't it?

the loving tribute and the regrets for the squandered good will. . .

[Straight Shooter]

12. Here sits a very cynical and tired American, with tears in her eyes.

Thank you for sharing. I had never seen this before.

An endless ocean of compassion flowed our way, and bush has evaporated almost every drop.

[Hamlette]

13. yeah, I hate to say it, but I'm not sure we'd get the same reaction

were it to happen again. Seems like now they would say we brought it on ourselves.

[Beausoir]

14. A good and great people.

They, like we, are at the mercy of their dictators.

What a kind gesture. Love those folks.

[windbreeze]

15. What an absolute and crying shame....

That our gov't has thrown that compassion and showing of solidarity away as though it meant nothing...I could just SCREAM!!
windbreeze

[mnhtnbb]

16. Boy, do I want to see Bush, Cheney, Rummy, and Rice tried

for war crimes.

[Hamlette]

18. I just want them out of office, I want my country back! n/t

[Pachamama]

17. Had 9/11 happened on President Gore's watch, we would have that

Goodwill still in the world....

What a different direction our world could have taken....I also believe that we would have been truly safer and probably with the help of various allies, had been able to capture Bin Laden....all without having to shred our Constitution and be hated around the world as we are under BushCo.

:cry:

[BlackVelvetElvis]

19. That moment was an exclamation mark on how I've felt today.

Thanks for the post.
I watched the re-broadcast of the 9/11 programming this morning and it really hit home how much was squandered.
It was just a bunch of empty promises of getting bin Laden "dead or alive".
We've lost many important allies on the REAL war (you know the one), including the moderate Muslims which are desperately needed.
We've lost almost 3,000 lives in the process of denial and HOW MANY INJURED? How many innocent are dead?
Diversions, posturing, McCarthyism, false propaganda and lies are what seem to rule the day.
When the Bush administration is hit in the face with the truth, they dig their heels in deeper—deny and condemn those who point out these truths.
I'm tired of being represented by a bunch of incompetent idiots.