thank you so much
I bought the album Toxicity on September 11, 2001, I think. Was that the day it was released? Wikipedia says it was the top album that week, so was it the week before?
I was driving around northern New Jersey listening to it a lot. I worked in Secaucus and I looked at the giant column of smoke over Manhattan for a week. I was in my house with my father and he said "go to work" so I did, but the roads were closed. The next day he said "go to work" and I received a call from a woman in Manhattan who was completely furious that we, Barnesandnoble.com, could not deliver her book with the "Same Day to Manhattan" service. She just would not get it. If it weren't for Terril, the quality manager on the floor, I might have been trying to please her all day - even tough I knew I couldn't convince any of the drivers to go over the Tappanzee Bridge to get her the exact book she needed for an "important presentation" she had that day.
I have many stories about things that have happened in my family, and I have been locked in the death chambbe in Elmina Castle in Ghana in 1995. I have heard the king of the Mensah Village, at the spot in the river where the slaves took their last baths before going into the caste and where children have no other place to play soccer except on the mass graves there. I have been to the courthouse in Morant Bay, Jamaica where Paul Bogle led a revolt against the Colonialist masters.
If you look at my Daily Kos and some of my DU posts in the past few weeks, you will see how I can identify with this movie so , so much. The first words of this video are so important:
A screamer is somebody whose defenses and alibis are melted away and they actually process what a genocide is without defense, without guile, and when you do that, when you actually allow it all in, there is no other alternative than to go up to people and say "the sky is falling, the sky is falling."
This is a picture of me from three weeks ago, when I heard amazing grace at a Veteran's Day ceremony for the first time since my father -- a veteran and a James E. Fellowship Award winning Scoutmaster who taught me many, many things -- died alone in a room on the other side of the country, and no one has convinced me, or my Aunt, that the cause of death that is still on his death certificate is a valid cause of death. Paging Dr. Fahn! Paging Dr. Fahn!
But anyway, this is the picture of how happy I am after I heard Amazing Grace on the bagpipes three weeks ago:
If this is a topic you are interested in asking questions about, please, please, please friend me on Myspace or Facebook:
http://www.myspace.com/erikblaineI know for a fact that I have some answers. Not all of them, but the ones I know about have so far been completely ignored. Thank you for posting this film.
I want to help you as much, or more than I want your help.
Warm Regards,
Erik B. Anderson
Independence Township, New Jersey
Established 1782
Remember Tillie Smith!