Fed Back

I copied this into my journal on 9/15/07, from the NY Historical Museum guest book outside the "Chelsea Jeans" memorial, "Elegy in Dust." The exhibit is a store front of jeans and clothing, preserved in its post 9/11 state, colors gone gray with PILES of dust all over the racks, the floor, the clothing.

"9/11/07

Six years. I've seen many of the images before, but not for a long time. First reaction = sadness, a terrible, aching, naively unexpected sadness. However, that eventually gave way to anger--not the red hot anger of the folks in the photo telling Bin Laden they were coming to kick his butt, but a dull anger at us, for how we as a nation responded. Cynical people took these events and used them to accomplish unrelated goals. But we let them. The USA is still a democracy, crippled though it's been by the politics of the past several years. We get the leaders we deserve, and I so want to believe we deserve better."

Bob ____, NYC"

And another entry:

"We all need to STOP questioning the motives of our own country and GREAT leaders and remember that this was caused by those who WISH they have what we do.

N.Y.C. Atty!"