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Eighteen years ago this week will be seared into our memory banks for as long as we all shall live.  Twenty years from now you’ll still remember 9/11/01 as if it had just happened a month ago.  Some of the details will have drifted but the overall insanity will remain vivid. I remember it was a Tuesday and I was talking to my daughter before she went off to school when the phone rang, it was my radio show producer who said to turn on the tv because craziness was unfolding.  When I saw what was happening I got that same strange feeling I had in grammar school when it was announced that JFK was shot.  Wha?  I remember the weather in Chicago that day and in fact throughout much of the country being what pilots call “severe clear.”  As I walked to the radio station around 11a the streets of downtown Chicago had turned eerily quiet and almost all businesses had crudely scrawled signs in their windows stating “closed due to the tragedy.”  When I got on the air I thought it necessary to point out that this wasn’t a tragedy, it was an atrocity.  A tragedy is when a bus carrying old people to a casino overturns.  As you know the day unfolded with all kinds of wild speculation as to what might happen next.  Right before I headed to work my mother-in-law who lived in Pennsylvania called and said news outlets there were reporting a plane had gone down in the western part of the state and that turned out not to be speculation. Everything went into slow motion, nothing made sense, we had never been attacked on our own shores, now what?  The next day the general consensus was that from now on everything was going to be serious, no more nonsense we’re all in this together we are one.  Well that lasted all of about 2 weeks before we started to slip back into are old habits.  Six months later just about all the nonsense was back and we are now enjoying another season of The Bachelor/Bacherlorette and the spin off Bachelor in Paradise.  Oh and something new for the 18th anniversary, people going nuts when they can’t get a Popeye’s chicken sandwich.  I wouldn’t be surprised if on the 20th anniversary we see 9/11 furniture and mattress sales.

Gunga, galunga
Garry