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Our First Anniversary Since The Tenth [The 9/11 Decade Plus One, and On, Anon...]
last September; my flag pin has hardly had time to gather dust in the interval,
it seems. But rather than vent and rage and ponder, I instead thought it interesting to look up a few figures:
Since September of last year, an estimated 3,956 people havedied in Iraq due to violence. In the
same time frame, 263-376 people were killed by Western drone attacks in
Pakistan. And since the latter half of
last year to the present, about 1,600 people have been reported killed in
Afghanistan as well. Conservatively figured,
we can presume between 5,800-5,900 have been killed in total since the
tenth-year anniversary, nearly double the number killed on Day Zero.
estimated total (depending on whose tally one takes) of violent deaths
(excluding Pakistan) of approximately 187,000 (say), that would give us about
48 deaths a day, every day for eleven years.
Which would imply another September 11th sized loss of life
has happened once every two months; less time if one opts for a less stringent
numbering. If one were inclined to stack each body atop the other (defying
gravity, these would stay in a single column of horizontal dead) you would have
a pile of bodies the equivalent of 84 Freedom
Towers, which is slated to rise to a symbolic 1,776 feet. If that’s not a monstrous
figure, I’m afraid for the future of humanity.[i]
“This anniversary allows us to renew our faith that even the darkest night gives way to the dawn,” Obama said at the Pentagon, where 184 people died when one of four hijacked planes slammed into the iconic building symbolizing U.S. military might. “As painful as this day is and always will be, it leaves us with a lesson that no single event can ever destroy who we are, no act of terrorism can ever change what we stand for,” Obama said, adding: “When the history books are written, the true legacy of 9-11 will not be one of fear or hate or division. It will be a safer world, a stronger nation, and a people more united than ever before.” – CNN
On that topic, the number of hot dogs America consumes each year would end-to-end
each other 10-billion feet; about eight times the distance from Earth to the
Moon.
2012-09-11 22:44:03
Source: http://www.deardirtyamerica.com/2012/09/our-first-anniversary-since-tenth-911.html
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