Sept. 11 - Never forget to save on a new mattress

Daily Mail's Poin Desk must be bored.

 

Another scalp for Outrage America. They can commiserate with the Indiana pizza parlor.

 

Like any day where there is a good chance of chest-thumping Patriotism ("I"m more American than you!"), I tend to stay off Facebook on 9/11. I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but the posts just make me roll my eyes almost out of my head. All of the "tributes" say essentially the same thing, and overall it's become such a self-serving day. No, I don't care that you were a junior in high school and your entire English class watched on TV, nor that you were in a grocery store and you dropped grapes all over the floor in astonishment. And remember your hashtag! #NEVERFORGET

It's one of many, many things social media has ruined, or perhaps it's just the curmudgeon in me.

 

Social media can fix you. Here's a kitten!

 

I was hitting tennis balls at the county park. Park was ordered to be evacuated. I had to quit playing. Upon hearing what happened, I did not "rush into work." Fuck that. It was my day off. That's my 9/11 story.

 

If you're looking for a very good read today, here's an oral history of the day of the attacks from those who were with Bush that day on Air Force One, which includes Andrew Card, Karl Rove, military people, the plane's pilot and the journalists who were a part of the small press pool.

‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’

 

Rove probably passed the time by deleting emails. Millions and millions of emails.

 

The morning of 9/11, we were moving my 82-year-old dad to a nursing home near us. On the way, we stopped at his brother's house in my hometown for lunch and watched the second plane hit. My dad, a career Air Force officer, said he was surprised it had taken that long.

Later that day as we checked into his home, the doctor stopped by his room and said, "Found something on your physical exam. We need to talk."

Terminal cancer. He was dead within four months.

That's my memory of 9/11.

 

jr - condolences. And it probably feels like yesterday. Wish you the best.

VB

 

Thanks. Appreciated.

 

Not quite mattress store, but made me say "yikes."