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Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 13B
College community sh0000res reactions, memories
A 9/11 Poem About a 9/11 Essay
By Mary-Louise Ruth
"nothing becomes something much more
poten which is absence."
--from "Ground Zero" by Suzanne Berne,
Patterns for College Writing, ed. Kirszner &
Mandell, publ. Bedford/St. Martins
But, what do we bring to Ground Zero
That empty space?
Hate, an absence of compassion?
Revenge, an absence of understanding?
Or,
Curiosity, inciting knowledge?
Tourists crowding to see
"An empty space,"
One old man remembered
The empty site
Before the towers were built,
Flashbulbs popping to capture
"a double negative."
Berne saw "a great bowl of light"
Making absence visible.
What's our loss?
1776 foot towers crumbling
As steel girders melted?
2753 lives tumbling down
Into ashes?
343 firemen incinerated
While doing their jobs?
A nation's innocence
We could never afford?
All gone.
Grief resurrects life
Fear extinguishes living
Grieve our loss
Empty our fear
WAITING, from page 12B
"God is great."
So, on Sept. 11, 2001, I was
sickened, not surprised. My
neighbor pounded on my
door. "A plane hit the World
Trade Center. It's terrorism."
I watched the later impact,
the endless reruns and the
collapse. It was always going
to be a one-shot operation.
But whoever was doing it
was certainly making the
most of it. Four planes at
once.., large, densely popu-
lated buildings... I remem-
bered the mythic curse of
Cassandra: to know of
approaching calamities and
be powerless to stop them.
The worst was the people
jumping.
Within a few weeks, every
airliner in the United States
had a lockable cockpit door.
A mentally distraught indi-
vidual tried to batter his way
through one. He was defeated
with one swing of a fire axe.
I called Professor Johnson,
who had chaired my disserta-
tion committee. We were
both anxious about how
America would respond.
Terrorism kills, but its after-
math often goes on to damage
a nation as a community.
Still, the United States had no
obvious, pre-existing authori-
tarian political faction to
exploit the fear and anger. We
have only a very sparse his-
tory of anyone favoring such a
program at all. I was hopeful
we could fare well. Johnson
was dismayed. He expected we
would not be immune to the
evils that arise when this kind
of horror takes hold.
He was, once.again, correct
i.n reading the signs. Again, it
was no comfort to be pre-
scient. Johnson was one of
the leading social scientists
of our age. A man who served
in the military during the
Korean War, advised in Viet-
nam and consulted for the
CIA and for Israel, he spent
his last years writing fiercely
in opposition to the course
Washington chose after 9/11.
I would still say America
did better than most. We still
have elections, for instance,
whereas many others lost
their to fear and anger. But
the wounds of the attack are
deep, and the wounds of the
aftermath are stubborn.
Chalmers Johnson died last
year, not living to see them
heal. For me, that is one more
9/11 sorrow.
I write this now, believing
that the wounds still can
heal. The time of helpless
waiting is passed, and so is
the freshness of the horror. It
is not true that "everything
has changed." We can re-
member who we are.
Strength starts there.
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