Share this comment
Last night, 60 Minutes devoted the entire hour to the events on 9/11 with focus on FDNY. Watching it really brought home once again just how horrific that day was. The final portion of the broadcast is about the many once-children of firefighters killed in the collapsed who have themselves become members of FDNY. cbs.com/shows/video/FHU…
…
Last night, 60 Minutes devoted the entire hour to the events on 9/11 with focus on FDNY. Watching it really brought home once again just how horrific that day was. The final portion of the broadcast is about the many once-children of firefighters killed in the collapsed who have themselves become members of FDNY. https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/FHUYINKEarGgryw6R0uM2C8Tq1yO7_Gn/
I was two days into a x-country road trip and had stopped in Alamagordo for the night. When I awoke about 7 am, I turned on the TV and was riveted until I was forced to turn it off and check out of the motel. Once into New Mexico, I had left I-10 and continued east on US 70. From Alamagordo, I headed north to Tularosa and jumped back on to US 70. Once east of the mountains, driving east for hours and hours, across wide open spaces on what felt like the top of the world, was reassuring to me as I thought about how huge our country is and what any invaders would likely face from westerners of the many small towns I drove through. I learned to stay in the left lane when I entered the towns because there were very long lines of stopped cars waiting to enter gas stations. And everywhere I looked, there were American flags - flying, painted on the side of buildings. I still have the small American flag handed to me at a stoplight in Arkansas Springs by a man in a wheelchair who may have been a Vietnam veteran. He was giving them to everyone waiting at the light.
I still have the ragged little flag I bought and had taped to my car antenna for over a year. I finally took it off when I felt it was so ragged, it was disrespectful to leave it there.
I kept mine inside the car, on my dashboard until I replaced that car in 2016. Not as convenient on the new dashboard so now decorating a potted plant on my deck.
I think I need to dig mine out of the box of mementos (including all the local newspapers for days) and stick it in a houseplant. Thanks for the idea.
I'm afraid I've always had an allergy to flags. especially then. especially now.