In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.
Tucker ElliotTag: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-10th-anniversary dodds tucker-elliot
The last two days I’ve been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on wooden boats, traversing currents into a different century. It’s late and dark, but I’m so close now. My uncle died five kilometers from here.
Tucker ElliotTag: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-10th-anniversary dodds tucker-elliot
I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.
Tucker ElliotTag: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-01 dodds tucker-elliot
We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.
Tucker ElliotTag: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.
Tucker ElliotTag: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
In Korea I’d been so afraid that Sami would lose her dad. She did, but she didn’t get a flag. He went to Doha, then to Baghdad, then to Kabul, then to someplace else, and then to a different someplace else, on and on. He’d come home, leave again, come home, leave again, until one day he came home a different person altogether. Sami lost Angel, lost her family, and then she lost herself.
Tucker ElliotTag: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea dodds tucker-elliot
It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how we live shapes and influences the world around us, then we’ve already lost.
Tucker ElliotTag: education 9-11 military iraq germany terrorism afghanistan korea 9-11-10th-anniversary dodds tucker-elliot
It seemed to me then—and to be honest, sir, seems to me still—that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority…. Such an America had to be stopped in the interests not only in the rest of humanity, but also in your own.
Mohsin HamidTag: 9-11
Joe wished it had all been just a dream. To think of planes crashing into impossibly-tall towers, of bombs taking out eyes and teeth and fingers, of a silent, secret war he didn’t understand, was to think of fiction, a cheap paperback thriller with a lurid cover. There was – there could be – nothing real about such things.
Lavie TidharTag: 9-11
Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people who rose to the moment, knowing it was their last. One was humility, for I was alive and untouched by the horrors of that day, free to continue my happy life as a husband and father and writer. In the lonely blackness, I could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus it's preciousness. We take it for granted, but it is fragile, precarious, uncertain able to cease at any instant without notice. I was reminded of what should be obvious but too often is not, that each today, each hour and minute, is worth cherishing.
John GroganTag: life 9-11 john-grogan marley-and-me
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