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On September 10, 2001…
I was interviewing Ed McBain on WYSO Public Radio in Yellow Springs. “Ed McBain” was the pen name of the late author Evan Hunter. As Ed McBain he wrote a series of best-selling crime novels set in a city very much like New York City.
During our conversation that day he talked about what it was like growing up in New York City. He shared an anecdote about walking to the old Apollo Theater with his dad and taking a shortcut through Harlem. They were not afraid. That was in those good old pre-fear days. They were not worried about racial violence or random gunfire. No planes flying too low…
The next day, September 11, 2001 was different. For New York. For America. For the world. Do you remember what you were doing on September 10, 2001 before everything changed?
Vick Mickunas
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By HLee
September 11, 2011 11:15 PM | Link to this
Ten years and two days ago, I wouldn’t have believed that my country would now be involved in four or five different wars, that we would have killed over 100,000 innocent men, women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan with no end in sight, that we would have gladly given up so many of our rights as free Americans, such as haebeus corpus,the right to be secure in our homes, or even the right to travel by airplane without having a machine strip us naked in public. I wouldn’t have believed we Americans would actually defend torture, or would be fine with imprisoning people for a decade without charges or trial. I wouldn’t have believed that 19 men with box-cutters could terrify the “home of the brave” so much that we’d willingly give up rights and principles it took us long, bloody wars to win. I wouldn’t have believed the terrorists could win that fast.