Posted by Editormum on 11 September 2009 in
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Eight years ago today, the United States was attacked by foreign enemies who had been harboured on her own soil, learning the skills that they needed to enact their appalling acts of violence and being supported by the freedoms and abundances of a great, if imperfect, nation. At that time, I worked as communications director […]
Tags: Afghanistan, fundamentalist, gratitude, Iraq, September 11, soldiers, terrorism, terrorist, True Stories, war
Posted by Editormum on 2 June 2008 in
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Some people need to just shut up. By now, everyone has seen the Dunkin’ Donuts ad with the photograph of Rachael Ray wearing a black-and-white scarf — the ad that some people said should be pulled because that black-and-white scarf looks like a keffiyeh — the head scarf worn by members of a certain Arab […]
Tags: news, stupidity, terrorism, terrorists
Posted by Editormum on 11 September 2006 in
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I wasn’t a blogger in 2001, so I don’t know that I’ve ever posted anything about where I was and what I was doing on this date five years ago. At that time, I worked for a pilots’ union. This union served the flight crew of a major global cargo carrier. It was around 7:45 […]
Tags: 9-11, Fedex pilots, news, terrorism, True Stories, Work Life
Remembering 11 September 2001
Eight years ago today, the United States was attacked by foreign enemies who had been harboured on her own soil, learning the skills that they needed to enact their appalling acts of violence and being supported by the freedoms and abundances of a great, if imperfect, nation. At that time, I worked as communications director […]
Tags: Afghanistan, fundamentalist, gratitude, Iraq, September 11, soldiers, terrorism, terrorist, True Stories, war