April 3, 2006
I guess you've already heard about the trailer forFlight 93, the movie, that was shown in NYC and LA. In case you haven't, people in the movie theater cried and complained that it was too soon for a movie of such importance to come out
I respectfully disagree.
I say, "respectfully," because I do respect the sentiment that people should be spared, whenever possible, from senseless pain being inflicted upon them. Even people in New York City and Los Angeles - although, I must admit that I have often thought San Francisco and Toledo should be nuked, just because - but they would feel practically no pain, if the nuke were big enough.
But I disagree: Because it is too chic, now, to blow off the 9/11 deaths as if they didn't happen. And don't think for one minute that this is not what's happening. It is. It makes being against the war so much easier. And let's face it, easy peace is what demonstrations are all about, aren't they? Don't think so? Remember, "Hell, no, we won't go!"?
No. People need to remember. They need to be reminded that this is not a play. This is not a game. This war isn't a movie.
Seems odd - even ironic - that this powerful movie is going to force that message into people's consciousness.
Dick Anderson
