Where C-SPAN is the local TV news
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Monday, September 11, 2006
FIVE YEARS, STUCK ON MY EYES Five years, what a surprise. Five years ago this morning I was sitting in my last apartment in Eugene a wooded third-floor perch overlooking a wooded courtyard. Being three time zones removed from the East Coast and enjoying the final days of my final summer vacation, I slept through everything save the falling of the second tower. It was a strange thing to wake up with. Today I woke up to tributes, and type this just a mile or so north of the Pentagon, from a Northern Virginia office complex improbably named the Twin Towers  (in six months I have heard it called that exactly zero times). Like every day, passenger jets pass overhead in one direction or another every three to five minutes, even today. And who flies on 9/11? People who have to work, I suppose. NBC is reairing the morning hours of their 9/11/01 Today show starting at 8:30. If I didn't have to work, I'd probably watch that, so it's probably a good thing I have to work.Tonight I will mark the anniversary, or at least spend the anniversary, at a very, very public event: the Washington Redskins' opener vs. the Minnesota Vikings at FedEx Field. I'll have the Canon with me, so expect another set of slightly disjointed photographs to appear in this space sometime soon. |
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