9/11 manufactured consent anniversary

How did you observe the manufactured consent anniversary of 9/11?

Here's what I did. I posted my skepticism about 9/11 origins. I read about one of the freshly dead soldiers on Military Resistance 817 by Thomas F. Barton (This is an email newsletter I get. I am not sure where to read it in full online but it is great and compiles news you see nowhere else.)

New Jersey-Born Army Spec. Pedro Millet Meletiche Killed On Third Day At Afghanistan Front

Spec. Pedro Millet Meletiche: Defense Dept./AP

August 25th 2010 BY Kerry Wills and Bill Hutchinson, DAILY NEWS WRITERS

A New Jersey soldier was killed on his third day on the front lines in Afghanistan, blown up by an explosive hurled at him by the enemy, officials and relatives said Tuesday.

Army Spec. Pedro Millet Meletiche, 20, of Elizabeth, was killed Sunday in the Arghandab River Valley when his unit was attacked as he was sweeping for mines.

“They sent him to the most dangerous part of the war,” his heartbroken mother, Denise, told the Daily News yesterday.

Her son was deployed to Afghanistan Aug. 1 and sent to the Arghandab River Valley on Friday.

Millet Meletiche joined the Army at the age of 17.

“He called me from the airport and said, ‘Mom, I’m leaving. I’m going in the Army,’” his mother said. “I didn’t know he was going. I said, ‘I don’t want you to go in the Army.’ He said, ‘I’m already on the airplane.’”

I read some of the Onion's 9/11 coverage for the last decade. My favorite:

• On TV Tonight

  	8:00		9:00		10:00
  NETWORK
  ABC	Attack On America	America Attacked	America In Crisis		America Still In Crisis
  NBC	A Nation Looks Around For Someone To Hit		America On The Verge Of Flying Off The Handle		America's Time Of Trial: Who Fucking Wants Some? You? Do You? How 'Bout You?
  CBS	Dan Rather's 83rd Straight Hour On The Air		Dan Rather Seriously Loses His Shit		Medicating Dan Rather
  CABLE
  BET	Wartime At The Apollow			Tavis Smiley Presents: Terrorists Strike America—The White Man Finds Somebody Else To Fear And Demonize For A Change
  MTV	The 100 Greatest, But, In Light Of Recent Events, Not As Important As Being Good To Our Loved Ones, Videos Of All Time			You! MTV Extends Its Condolences	Talking To Blink 182 About The Tragedy	Carson Daly In Way Over His Head
  Lifetime	Golden Girls	Golden Girls	Golden Girls	Golden Girls	Golden Girls	Golden Girls
  History	Last Tuesday In History		Two Weeks Ago, As Told By Those Who Lived It		Last Tuesday In History (rerun)
  Nickelodeon	Clarissa Explains The Attack On America		SpongeJohn SquareAshcroft		Rugrats Rising
  Animal Planet	Sharks: Terrorists Of The Sea		The Noble American Eagle: Long May She Fly		Fuck Everything, Here's Some Zebra Footage
  Public Access	Patriotism How-To With Rainbow Steve		Oh, Shit, Man... Oh, Shit	Attack On America: Live Drum-Circle Coverage From Peace Park		Extremely Uninformed Debate

I read Ten Reasons Not to Burn the Qur'an and then shared it on facebook.

I complained about a local public school having the kids put thousands of U.S. flags on the lawn every year. Because it "teaches kids to think." Yeah, I bet the ones riding by in the backseat of their mom's car while she picks up big brother have to think real hard to figure out what cemetery rows of the stars & stripes are supposed to stand for.

I had just heard from a girl in the first week of 9th grade that she is joining the Army because "they are going to send me to the Rhode Island School of Design. The recruiter promised." I wonder if she was even in double digits when the recruiters started talking to her.

I wrote to my Afghan-American friend about her Samsortya project regenerating trees in eastern Afghanistan. When I feel discouraged, I think about the last picture she sent me of those saplings thriving.

Then I watched this video made by Veterans for Peace member Jeanette McDermott of a bunch of us marching and talking about how the war economy (isn't) working for U.S. It has a lot of PINK in it plus VFP, IVAW, MFSO, and more, and a rousing rendition by emma's revolution of their song "Who Lies? Who Dies? Who Pays? Who Profits?" It lifted my spirits almost as much as the actual march itself. Thank you, peace friends, for being there.