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Sep. 12th, 2007 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunshine_queenThis year was the first year I really didn't dwell on September 11th, which, really, I always have, because I was pretty affected by it, seeing as I didn't even know anyone in NYC or DC at the time. It was the day I became friends with Becca, but other than a "happy anniversary," I didn't really mark the occasion, or even think of it much. (which kind of makes me sick.)
I went to Sars's blog, which I really regularly. She's been looking for the "disaster buddy" Don for six years, who she hasn't seen since he walked off towards the ferry to take him back to Jersey. While reading that her mother (and some others) believe that he could've been an angel (which, seriously, I could buy, given that day,) that isn't what got to me.
This is:
I leafed forward through the paper, thinking that surely I'd find more — more stories, more pictures — but I didn't, besides a few editorials, and the In Memoriam section of the death notices. And this is the second thing: the living didn't just write their memorials about the dead. They wrote them to the dead. "Another year passes. Happy Anniversary in Heaven, Gerald. Peace, Schulz." "Always in our hearts and prayers. Your loving aunts, uncles and cousins." "May you always walk in sunshine. Love always, Louie (Snapple) Florio."
"(Snapple)." Louie Florio wrote a comparatively lengthy paragraph about his late friend Daniel Suhr, a man he loved and admired. The writing is labored, but you can tell it's because it's important to Louie Florio that he get everything good about Daniel Suhr in there and get it right. And in case his friend sees it, and by some chance had another friend named Louie Florio, this Louie Florio made sure to include "(Snapple)." It is completely illogical for Louie Florio to believe that Daniel Suhr is reading the Daily News on the anniversary of his own death, or that he wouldn't know which Louie Florio wrote such lovely things about him if he were, but they loved each other, Daniel Suhr and Louie Florio, and so Louie Florio believes if he puts "(Snapple)" in there at the end, Daniel Suhr will know for sure that they're still friends.
And of course they're still friends. Louie Florio has the important part right.
I went to Sars's blog, which I really regularly. She's been looking for the "disaster buddy" Don for six years, who she hasn't seen since he walked off towards the ferry to take him back to Jersey. While reading that her mother (and some others) believe that he could've been an angel (which, seriously, I could buy, given that day,) that isn't what got to me.
This is:
I leafed forward through the paper, thinking that surely I'd find more — more stories, more pictures — but I didn't, besides a few editorials, and the In Memoriam section of the death notices. And this is the second thing: the living didn't just write their memorials about the dead. They wrote them to the dead. "Another year passes. Happy Anniversary in Heaven, Gerald. Peace, Schulz." "Always in our hearts and prayers. Your loving aunts, uncles and cousins." "May you always walk in sunshine. Love always, Louie (Snapple) Florio."
"(Snapple)." Louie Florio wrote a comparatively lengthy paragraph about his late friend Daniel Suhr, a man he loved and admired. The writing is labored, but you can tell it's because it's important to Louie Florio that he get everything good about Daniel Suhr in there and get it right. And in case his friend sees it, and by some chance had another friend named Louie Florio, this Louie Florio made sure to include "(Snapple)." It is completely illogical for Louie Florio to believe that Daniel Suhr is reading the Daily News on the anniversary of his own death, or that he wouldn't know which Louie Florio wrote such lovely things about him if he were, but they loved each other, Daniel Suhr and Louie Florio, and so Louie Florio believes if he puts "(Snapple)" in there at the end, Daniel Suhr will know for sure that they're still friends.
And of course they're still friends. Louie Florio has the important part right.
