There are two things on my mind as I think about the events that took place exactly 17 years ago at what we now call Ground Zero in Manhattan...
The first is that the wounds from the attack on America on 9/11 have healed to a significant degree.
I had expected that time would lessen the sting and the shock we all felt that day only a little; that it was such a singular event that the memory of it would be an open, festering wound for a generation.
I'm glad I was wrong about that.
It was--and is--a very, very big deal, but Americans have shown once again that we're a very pragmatic and resilient lot.
That's a good thing.
The other thing on my mind today is that our Nation is saddled, at this moment, with a President who's such vicious and unrepentant liar that even the memory of the losses we suffered on 9/11 are tainted by his out-sized ego and his constant lying!
Some folks may have forgotten about how tRump bragged shortly after the towers had fallen, that his building was now the tallest in Manhattan!
I haven't forgotten.
Some may not have heard that our #LyingLoserPrez has falsely claimed to have tried to dig victims of the 9/11 attacks out of the ruble at Ground Zero.
That, of course, was a lie. And there are plenty more where that came from!
So now, even though America's gone through a painful and thorough process of grieving and healing, we can be pulled back into the raw, terrible frenzy that is our national recollection of the attack at any time simply because our #PoserPrez can't keep himself from lying. Not even about the attacks on September 11th.
America suffers a fresh attack every time this hateful, traitorous bastard opens his mouth.
And we cannot begin to heal from this National nightmare until we are rid of him.
"Bulldog Ben" Basile
© September 11, 2018
Benjamin Lawrence Basile
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