tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post4930653863844678095..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: September 11th, 2001, My Pictures.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-44432072633131478172011-09-11T00:08:34.885-04:002011-09-11T00:08:34.885-04:00Audrey and I are looking at these photos together ...Audrey and I are looking at these photos together on the eve of 9/11. It's overwhelming to see it from the viewpoint of our own dear friend Doug. <br /><br />When you wrote that you instinctively kept clicking the shutter to take photos, Audrey exclaimed, "That's an artist for you!"Kittredge Cherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02617858676733169316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-77006363278523145832011-09-02T12:19:04.939-04:002011-09-02T12:19:04.939-04:00I'm glad you posted them, Doug. Watching the ...I'm glad you posted them, Doug. Watching the film on TV on the day it happened was almost too polished--like a movie. The rawness of these images reminds us that there was nothing polished about it. And it is so sad tha we have allowed this event to destroy so much of what we valued.<br /><br />There was such good possible.... and we chose a path of fear.IThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09605163506396013904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-46027926234347248342011-09-02T10:37:09.994-04:002011-09-02T10:37:09.994-04:00If anyone ever bothers to read what I wrote in the...If anyone ever bothers to read what I wrote in the previous posts, you'll see that I'm not wallowing in anything, but trying to make sense of what's happened since 9/11.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-16497722010435637032011-09-02T10:34:54.854-04:002011-09-02T10:34:54.854-04:00It's been more than 90 years since World War I...It's been more than 90 years since World War I ended, and yet commemoration ceremonies all over Europe are still deeply emotional events.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-19868793103891481372011-09-02T10:33:13.248-04:002011-09-02T10:33:13.248-04:00People need to remember, especially their dead.People need to remember, especially their dead.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-54532539732513484412011-09-02T10:07:32.946-04:002011-09-02T10:07:32.946-04:00It was so tramatic watching on TV, to actualy be t...It was so tramatic watching on TV, to actualy be there must have been so much worse! I realise it was a HUGE thing, but still, how can we let it be the end all and be all of life now? Can't we work to honor those lost by making life better NOT by wallowing in the missery and continueing to be the victum? 10 years seems long enoug...how can we get better if we glorify and enshrine this terrible event?Tristan Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936915388418287612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-60142483415046777662011-09-02T09:56:29.458-04:002011-09-02T09:56:29.458-04:00How terrible it must have been to watch, Doug. Oh...How terrible it must have been to watch, Doug. Oh, what a horror!June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.com