Thoughts from Gotham City

[pecunium]

rm wrote this.

It's part of a much better whole.

"New York beckons people from all over the world for a myriad of reasons. Commerce. Theater. And possibility. The sea and the rivers having done so much to make us what we are, and yet, living here, we rarely see them, surrounded as we are by our buildings and our people. People come to New York City to be the most famous and visible person in all the world. But people also come to New York City to disappear, by choice or by accident, to finally be ordinary, to finally have community or home. We are a city of pride and secrets, of the fallen and of the free. People have always been broken by New York, and people have always been healed by her. Sometimes it just comes in a cataclysm.

And that's what the RNC doesn't understand. That's what the RNC has never understood. That's what the RNC tried to witlessly exploit. New York endures, neither despite ourselves nor despite the things that happened here. New York endures, simply because that is what she does, and it is what she has always done. And that's a thing simple, extraordinary and honest. It's the most American thing about her, and yet we were only ever believed to be real Americans just like anyone else when the fire rained down, so uselessly... so usefully."

don't treat me as if I am something that happened to you (9/11)

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I looked at that a week ago... it's iffy.

The criteria for the award are such that he might have been authorised to wear it when the photo was taken. There are also more occaisions the award was granted to his unit than the complaint mentions.

But yeah, it has a certain appeal.

TK

[fritz-freiheit.livejournal.com]

Ah. I didn't really know the technicalities related to such things. It just seems, well, odd.