It’s the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and there are memorials and remembrances everywhere. You can see the front pages of newspapers worldwide as printed on 9/12 from the Newseum. Here’s the NJ front page from that day:
The White House remembers those who died on 9/11:
Just one of the tasteless commercial remembrances (and I wish they’d stop too):
Rembering those who lost their lives on September 11, 2011.
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— Intimacy Box (@intimacybox) September 11, 2014
Then we have more tastelessness from religious conservatives blaming 9/11 on the legalization of abortion:
The messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn went on “Sid Roth’s ‘It’s Supernatural’” last week to explain how the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11, Right Wing Watch reports. […]
“The Shemitah can also mean the fall of nation, and guess what happened in 1973?” Cahn asked. “America decides to legalize the killing of unborn children. And that year is the same year America loses its first war — Vietnam. And yet that same year, you have the World Trade Center” being completed. It is no coincidence, he argued, that the Twin Towers also fell in 2001, another year of the Shemitah. […]
The conservative anti-abortion group Priests for Life also connected 9/11 to legalized abortion in a recent video. As images of 9/11 appear on screen, the video asks viewers to “imagine if a candidate for public office said, ‘I support the right of terrorists to do what they did.’”[…]
While these crazies are lamenting a woman’s right to choose, let’s make a point of remembering those who gave their lives in a misguided war that used 9/11 as an excuse — a war that we still find ourselves cleaning up after.