Latest from 1987alum...a must read!

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:53 am

A word of caution...this one WILL put a lump in your throat. A must read before Saturday's game!!

http://www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com/articles/1987alum/

UK Peregrine · Post by **UK Peregrine** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:10 am

Outstanding and compelling article 1987alum. I took a few moments after reading this to think about everyone important to me and how 9/11 affected the way I view the world.

Great job 1987alum!

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:57 am

87'

Thanks for an emotional column. Living in NE Ohio, I just can't imagine what it must have been like for our fellow Americans on the East Coast.

Mrs. Freak and I were supposed to fly out 9/12 for Myrtle Beach, stay there a couple days and then drive up to Columbia for the BG/USC game. We ended up driving to Charlotte and back checking things out wherever we were. It was very strange not seeing any planes in the sky.

It would be awesome if the whole stadium would have a moment of silence before the game. We owe it to all those that perished and those that worked so hard to help people in need.

College football is very exciting and passionate...but is still just a game.

May we NEVER forget what happened 3 years ago this Saturday.

My prayers and thoughts will always be with those folks that suffer the lasting effects of this tragedy.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:55 am

I've come to view events in my life as happening in one of two contexts, pre 9/11 and post 9/11. My daughter was born two short months after the attacks. I was fortunate, the Vietnam war was over by the time I was a teenager, the Gulf War was largely a TV event for most of my generation. For much of my life America has been peaceful and prosperous.
My daughter wasn't so fortunate. She's going to have to live with the spectre of the war on terrorism. She's going to grow up in a society who's chief enemy is fear. Fear of an entity that regards no one as innocent, an entity that has the disruption and destruction of "normal" life as its primary goal. She'll never know what America was on 9/10/2001.

On the topic of innocents, the recent terror attack in Beslan, Russia has devasted hundreds of families. It is unfathomable to me that children would be massacred in the name of freedom. Visit moscowhelp.org if you would like to show your solidarity with the families of the latest victims of terrorism.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:34 pm

Flipper:

Several people were grabbing extra copies of the special edition our newspaper put out on the day of the attacks. But someone said to me, "We really should be saving the papers from Sept. 10th, because that was the last day things were normal."

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:27 pm

1987--I just realized I snipped an important sentcnce out of my original post.

"Congratulations on another well written article. I really enjoy your work..."

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:38 pm

Flipper: Many thanks!

I forgot to add in the article that I really wanted to come to the SE Mizzou game for all the reasons mentioned. I was thrilled to go to the Motor City Bowl in many ways, one of them being the terror alert level had been elevated to Orange leading up to the holidays. Not that I wanted to thumb my nose at the whole thing, just that I wanted to, in my own little way, show that the terrorists didn't change everything. I wanted to travel to BG on the weekend of Sept. 11 for the same reason. It's the same reason I think everyone who can should attend the game.