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Sep. 11th, 2005 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheMy RSI is flaring up this morning. Dollars to doughnuts it's because I slept funny.
I'd planned on watching Keith Olbermann's Katrina coverage tonight at 9:00 on MSNBC, but instead I will be spending time with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dionysus1999. These are the days I wish 1) MSNBC reran things more often and 2) that our VCR was hooked up correctly.
I'm wading in laundry today.
What an utterly pedestrian way to observe the fourth anniversary of the worst attack on U.S. soil.
Yet at the same time it seems, to me, macabre to focus feelings of grief on those who died in the World Trade Center attack. We've mourned them for three straight years. I think we should be observing at least one full day of mourning on a national scale for the Katrina victims. Any other Western nation, particularly those in Europe, would have done the same or more by now. Bush's strategy so far has been to keep the national consciousness from going through the five stages of grief for the tens of thousands who drowned. At least many in the 9/11 attacks died instantly. The people in New Orleans had days to wonder if the government would save them from one of the most horrible deaths imaginable.
I'd planned on watching Keith Olbermann's Katrina coverage tonight at 9:00 on MSNBC, but instead I will be spending time with
dionysus1999. These are the days I wish 1) MSNBC reran things more often and 2) that our VCR was hooked up correctly.I'm wading in laundry today.
What an utterly pedestrian way to observe the fourth anniversary of the worst attack on U.S. soil.
Yet at the same time it seems, to me, macabre to focus feelings of grief on those who died in the World Trade Center attack. We've mourned them for three straight years. I think we should be observing at least one full day of mourning on a national scale for the Katrina victims. Any other Western nation, particularly those in Europe, would have done the same or more by now. Bush's strategy so far has been to keep the national consciousness from going through the five stages of grief for the tens of thousands who drowned. At least many in the 9/11 attacks died instantly. The people in New Orleans had days to wonder if the government would save them from one of the most horrible deaths imaginable.