This collection of entries is from September 11, 2005.
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Hotter today than yesterday. This time we came better prepared by bringing wet frozen hand towels (in ziploc bags) in Carol's bag the she brings to every game. Can keep drinks cold (or at least much cooler) or use on your face, neck, hands, and head to cool down.
However, we started the day by picking up our friend Janie and having Sunday Brunch at the Stadium Club restaurant. we hadn't had a sit-down meal at the club all season, so we thought we should do that while we could.
Well, the great El Duque - Orlando Herndandez - was crap today. He gave up 4 runs in two innings . He was pulled for our new guy, Brandon McCarthy, whom I like a lot. He lasted 5 2/3 innings and only gave up 2 runs.
Our offense has virtually disappeared. we don't score until the bottom of the 9th, and it was only 1 run.
(Boxscore)
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The pain and anger and loss that I felt four years ago on September 11, 2001 somehow has changed.
Hurricane Katrina seems to have taken a brush and re-colored those feelings, and then re-amplified parts of those and introduced others.
I can't shake these feelings now that maybe we could have been just plain lucky that our government worked well during in the aftermath of a terrorist attack when - if somebody would just figure out that the government response should have been the same - in the aftermath of a natural disaster, our government had no reaction for days.
The phrase is the same, but perhaps it takes on additional meaning:
Never Forget.