Scott on Nostr: I lived and worked in Washington DC on 9/11, 2001. I was with a global health ...
I lived and worked in Washington DC on 9/11, 2001. I was with a global health organization focused on Latin America and the Caribbean.
As the news from New York broke and the plane struck the Pentagon there were also a couple of loud blasts heard within the city. I’ve never heard confirmation of what these were, but we heard and felt them. Colleagues of mine in DC from Latin America, including several Chileans, were moved to screams, tears and sheer panic as all of this unfolded. The trauma of 9/11 (1973) and the Pinochet years were very much still with them.
My Chilean colleagues were not alone in their reaction. Nicaraguans, Haitians, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Venezuelans and other nationals also had their trauma-memory triggered. Bombs, death squads, foreign-funded bloody coups. It all came back on 9/11.
Ever since 2001, on 9/11, my thoughts return to these colleagues, to the people of these countries — many of which a former U.S. President called “shithole countries” — and to all of the less remembranced “9/11s” of history. There are far too many.
May our children know more peace in their lifetimes.
https://youtu.be/-CW9jwUN8Jw?si=JbD6neD3Pr0Gbsro
As the news from New York broke and the plane struck the Pentagon there were also a couple of loud blasts heard within the city. I’ve never heard confirmation of what these were, but we heard and felt them. Colleagues of mine in DC from Latin America, including several Chileans, were moved to screams, tears and sheer panic as all of this unfolded. The trauma of 9/11 (1973) and the Pinochet years were very much still with them.
My Chilean colleagues were not alone in their reaction. Nicaraguans, Haitians, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Venezuelans and other nationals also had their trauma-memory triggered. Bombs, death squads, foreign-funded bloody coups. It all came back on 9/11.
Ever since 2001, on 9/11, my thoughts return to these colleagues, to the people of these countries — many of which a former U.S. President called “shithole countries” — and to all of the less remembranced “9/11s” of history. There are far too many.
May our children know more peace in their lifetimes.
https://youtu.be/-CW9jwUN8Jw?si=JbD6neD3Pr0Gbsro