This is hurting me very much, and not because the Blue Angels flew over Frisco every year. This hurts because exactly twenty years ago TODAY, a US military jet crashed into the town where i've lived the past seven years. With much controversy.
One of my best friends there has her family scarred for life. Her one year old son lost an eye, and she lost five of her neighbors, in horrible circumstance that i won't describe here.
The cancer cluster that emerged is still being debated. The cover-up by the US military with the complicity of the German government is a horror show of power against citizens.
She tells me as the house began to roar and shake, she ran to the front door to get one of her sons. She swears she could see the eyes of the pilot as he swerved at the last minute and hit the house next door.
This is not funny, and whether it's a training run in San Diego or a bombing run in Baghdad or Kabul, the end result is still a horror that we pay for with our taxes.
Twenty years ago exactly!
This woman's work as a designer of the first sustainable industry centers in Germany for the state gov is top rate, as opposed to the rain of destruction from the powers that be elsewhere. I'm so pissed and shaken.
FAKT german version "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Can't translate, but remembers the six (plus pilot) who lost their lives, and then mentions all the cancer deaths. It mentions the suspicions, but says there's no explanation yet for the many cancer deaths.
I know a story which even includes evidence being taken and "lost" by the german courts. I know the US military sealed off the area for days. I know there was much money spent to calm the citizens, like building a new soccer ground.
I know another of her sons is now in Berlin studying to be a wind engineer, having written the authoritative paper on the decade long events for his graduation.
I can't believe this happened twenty years to the day. It's too late to call, but this must be very hard to handle for the family, and the families of all in Remscheid who suffered.
Shit. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Here the rescue crew describes the "munitions" exploding during the rescue action.
I'm really shook, i'll stop now. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
I feel better having spoken with her this AM. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
