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I grew up in Levittown of the '60's when kids were free to roam all over town and New York City was only a bus and a train ride away. Moved to Florida nearly 35 years ago, but lived the first three years of my life in a two bedroom apartment at 424 Hudson Street, Greenwich Village.
My daughter turns 23 on May 6th and we will take a quick trip to New York City to celebrate.The impetus for the trip was being invited to have lunch with Amy Goodman. I was invited because I am a donor to LINK TV which broadcasts her Democracy Now news that the MSM neglects.
Ever since THAT DAY we call 9/11, I have known that I would one day go -and just be- at ground zero.
Ground Zero is where I will spend the morning before lunch with Amy, and then I will explore Greenwich Village and find the church where my folks were married: St. Teresa's One True and Holy Roman Catholic Church on Henry Street in the Village.
My father found a photo of the church with The Twin Towers in the far distance. Soon, I will know what can be viewed there now.
Lennon also said, "Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
John Lennon made a truthful comment regarding my generation. The USA media broadcast the lunatics burning albums and memorabilia, but NOT the majority, who did NOT. When I saw those images I cringed and was ashamed I was a Christian and an American, for I did NOT relate to the scene they spread.
Inspired by Lennon when I was twelve, I decided to leave the institutional church in the summer between the 6th and 7th grade.I was ten years old when The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan. I grew up in the days before Ritalin was prescribed for kids like me, who needed to move around to think and asked a lot of blunt questions. Island Trees Elementary was two easy miles away from home, and by the third grade I ran to and fro. Every Saturday, year round, after two bowls of Cap'n Crunch, I would be out the door until the sun went down. By noon, my friends and I had walked over four and a half miles to the mall. Not much there, but as now, it was where everyone went.
By late afternoon we would be the last arrivals for confession at St. Bernard's, the One True and Holy Roman Catholic Church. Saturday's ritual consisted of cogitating upon what you had done the week before while awaiting your turn in the line, which was never long enough. Every Saturday I would say the same as the Saturday before. Nothing ever changed. My litany was, "Father forgive me, it has been one week since my last confession. I fought with my brothers most every day, I curse because I like the way the words sound, I look out the window and ignore the teacher during math and grammar class."
Father O'Brian, the shadowy priest on the other side of the grill and sliding café door that supposedly masked your identity, but didn't, always gave the same penance; three Our Father's and ten Hail Mary's.
One particular summer Saturday in the summer between the sixth and seventh grade, as I was kneeling at the altar in the middle of the same old penance, it dawned on me, that the words didn't mean a thing.So, I got up and left, knowing I was doomed for hell, for I had flunked confession.
I didn't tell my friends about it and never mentioned it to my folks. I still got into the car on Sunday mornings, but daydreamed my way through church. I did not meet Jesus in the one true and holy Roman Catholic Church, but I wrote about that in Memoirs of a Nice Irish-American Girl's Life in Occupied Territory, so, I won't now.
It has been said, 9/11 changed everything, except how we think.
9/11 changed my way of thinking, and what I fully finally realized is we the people can NOT rely on media or government to tell us the truth.
After THAT DAY we call 9/11, the media let us down big time again, by taking the role of secretaries taking down dictation from Big Brother when they should have been asking questions and searching for reasons WHY did a few people in the world hate us so much they could take innocent lives?
I am not sure what I wrote the other day to trigger Big Brother in the USA Military to jump [from 23rd out of 55 countries who visit WAWA] into 10th place, [USA Government:11th, Israel: 12th] but even if they were the ONLY ones reading, I would still be grateful, for "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official."~Theodore Roosevelt
"Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."-John Lennon
This reporter has been to Billin twice to attend the two-year long every Friday afternoon NONVIOLENT ritual protesting The Wall and because the Industrial-Military-Media Complex will NOT report that a Nobel Peace Prize laureate was shot last week with a rubber bullet by the Israeli forces, I will:http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1316
by Ali Waked Published: 04.20.07
Nobel Peace Prize Mairead Corrigan has been injured during confrontations between security forces and left-wing activists protesting the security fence route near Bilin, activists said.
Corrigan, who won the prize in 1976 for her work in encouraging a peaceful solution to the Northern Ireland dispute, was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet and was transferred to a hospital for treatment. She was also said to have inhaled large quantities of teargas.
Policemen and soldiers used teargas grenades and rubber bullets to disperse the routine Friday protest against the security fence near the Palestinian village of Bilin and were confronted by a hail of stones.
Two Border Guard policemen were lightly injured by stones.
The security forces say the area where activists hold their protest is a no-access military zone which they have to evacuate of Palestinian and Israeli protesters every Friday.
Activists say the fence route near Bilin was designed to expropriate Palestinian farm land which will be used to expand a Jewish settlement in the area.
Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti and Deputy Prime Minister Assam al-Ahmad also took part in the protest.
"I salute the residents of Bilin for their peaceful struggle in a region that is so violent and I call on the Israeli public, whom I know is for justice and peace, to support the residents' struggle," Corrigan told Ynet.
"I want to say that this separation wall, contrary to what the Israeli say, will not prevent attacks and violence. What will prevent attacks and violence is a peace agreement between the two peoples, and I sure the Israeli people, like the Palestinian people, wants peace," Corrigan added.
"Blessed are the Peacemakers: THEY are the children of God."-Jesus
