They pull all of us into the conference room around 9:30. The government’s five-thousand dollar plasma is showing the commemoration of the Pentagon’s 9/11 Memorial. On the broadcast some General is at the podium speaking in flighty words, issuing prayers and summing up all the virtues of the people in attendance. The whole presentation is more subdued than one of, say, Goebells’, but the differences in rhetoric are buried somewhere deep in the Earth next to my sentimentality. (more…)