some artworks that were posted shortly after the attacks, i thought it'd be interesting to share

Plushies To Comfort by Dave McCoy (@celixdog) https://side7.com/content/KZr53yYMN7 World Trade Center Accident by Stacey LeBlanc (@staclebl) https://side7.com/content/p7reOQkMdN Tragedy.... by Beth Caya (@bethcaya) https://side7.com/content/VR963YGM1j Emergency 9.11 Light a Candle by Katie M (@kaytea) https://side7.com/content/VR96JL391j We will not be intimidated! by Delran Phillips (@Mavrik) https://side7.com/content/amMz4qwre0 The 2nd plane crash into the WTC building by Kristen Adams (@netsirksmada) https://side7.com/content/eA90pyv9vB America will not fall by Katie Shipp (@Dawny) https://side7.com/content/jDMWV669OQ In Memory of all those we lost.. by Jennifer Winn (@BaskitKase) https://side7.com/content/m2r3DZZ9pd

these are from years after:

World Trade Center Memorial by Beth McDonald (@daitryk) https://side7.com/content/lar4W2Aq84 Burned Memories by Tabitha Ramsey (@tabby) https://side7.com/content/2Br2Keaj97 Angel at 9/11/01 by Jocelyn Vallery (@jocevall) https://side7.com/content/6Wrn0013MZ God bless America by Sharon M (@Shazi) https://side7.com/content/Gv8PgX2M7a

This is actually quite an illuminating cross-section of the popular reaction. Not being a USian and having taken the day off sick, I wasn't availed of the whole story until the next day, so it isn't seared into the brain the way it was with a lot of my colleagues—but man this takes me back all the same.

A friend of mine journaled his university trip to Europe just these last two months—part of a course on memory and the First World War, so I'm rather primed for this topic. I think it's safe to say the War on Terror will go down as one of the most catastrophic misadventures in modern history, and a gross overreaction to what should have been prosecuted as a criminal act rather than this endless (and very much consciously-framed) crusade. Bush's deteriorating helmet may be Doonesbury's single best memetic, and Mavrik's post immediately brought it to mind.

On the more cynical side, I fav'd this during my deep dive into the archives back in April.