Reply #62: What has happened to your husband is an individual TRAVESTY. [View All]

I don't minimize that for a moment. And the care of responders is a NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

But 911 DOES NOT justify the horror we have made of Iraq and yes, Afghanistan. AND it has not justified the rape of our civil liberties.

I have three times the limit of nuclear radiation, thanks to my Navy time handling radio cobalt treatments as a corpsman, and on broken arrow teams. My chances of cancer are damned good. Is it a travesty what the government did to me for the sake of expediency? Yes. Is it a NATIONAL TRAGEDY? No.

I hope your husband recovers. The SCALE I was referring to was "personal," meaning the 911 incident itself was being treated by us as WORLD CHANGING. It isn't that. But that is another example of our national arrogance.