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Naomi’s elegy for the fallen.

After reading Michael Moore’s blog entry with his airport experiences … I honestly feel right now like I never want to fly again. Sick, and the sad thing is I know how true it is, I have seen the same thing.

Other reads from today, which I plan to read again in the future, hopefully under better circumstances: FiveFoot6, DJ Wudi, Out of Range, The Tin Man, and Laura Holder, Ctrl-Alt-Ego. Links found thanks to various blogs. Ev has set up a search page at blogger with so many more listed.

Red, White & Blue Ribbon campaign.

The Nostradamus prediction that is circulating around the web is a HOAX. You can read all about it at Snopes.com. “It originated with a student at Brock University in Canada in the 1990s, appearing on a web page essay on Nostradamus. That particular quatrain was offered by the page’s author, Neil Marshall, as a fabricated example to illustrate how easily an important-sounding prophecy can be crafted through the use of abstract imagery. He pointed out how the terms he used were so deliberately vague they could be interpreted to fit any number of cataclysmic events.” Don’t pass it on, even though it is very scary how close it is to reality.

Web offers both News and Comfort Couldn’t have said it better myself. The human story, how this is touching everyone, not the media view … that is what I crave. That is what I need.

Know what keeps sticking out in my mind? The news clips of those people walking, so calmly (also known as in shock) across the bridges, out of Manhattan. It gives me chills every time I think about it. I am also very proud that there have been no reports of looting or rioting. Americans have a bad enough reputation for doing that. Come to think of it, if you leave the United States, we generally have a bad reputation around the globe. I don’t blame people from other countries for thinking this – we have an incredibly high crime rate. We are rude to people from other nations, even when we are guests in their country. We start fights. (I witnessed both of those things too often when I lived in Germany and when I travelled across Europe.) Sure, they are generalizations, but we have earned them. There have been moments when I lived in Germany where I didn’t want to admit I am an American … yesterday was NOT one of those moments. They walked, so calmly, so orderly, across the bridge…

Mike Daisey has a very poignant account. As do so many other blogs online.

Today, I am proud to be an American. Thank you to all of those that have stood so tall in this time of such tragedy.