Here comes Sept. 11 again

It's almost time for the first annual Sept. 11 rehash. It won't go on forever -- it will just seem like it. The news event that provides the best recent comparison -- the assassination of JFK -- was commemorated up the wazoo for years, and every Nov. 22 rolled around like doomsday. Sept. 11 will seem like that too -- only there are more images to trot out -- a lot more images -- for ten or twenty years, until it fades from the collective consciousness.

Of course, if Bush manages to start a huge war by invading Iraq, the resulting conflagration could make Sept. 11 look like a Labor Day pileup on the New Jersey Turnpike by comparison.

Speaking of images, here are some great ones, posted at the Digital Journalist site in their issues 110 and 111. The latter contains digital images salvaged from the belongings of a photographer whol was killed in the collapse of the second tower to fall.

I'll be in New York for that day. Man, what'll that be like.