Ich war die ganze Nacht wach gewesen, hatte mit T. telefoniert oder gechattet? Neverwinter Nights gespielt? Ich weiß nicht mehr. Wir verabschiedeten uns online, kurz darauf klingelte mein Telefon – T. war dran und meinte, ich solle den Fernseher anmachen. Ich weiß noch, dass mein erster Gedanke „Krieg“ war und ich Angst hatte, der Rest verschwimmt. Ich war im IRC, die gängigen Webseiten waren alle down. Meinen Freunden in den Staaten schrieb ich Emails, weil einige von ihnen Verwandte in New York hatten.<\/p>\n
Trotz allem natürlich die obligatorische Gesellschaftskritik …<\/p>\n
Up and down this road I go
\nSkippin‘ and dodgin‘
\nFrom a 44<\/p>\n10:03 on a Tuesday morning
\nIn the fall of an American dream
\nA man is doing what he knows is right
\nOn flight 93
\nHe loved his mom and he loved his dad
\nHe loved his home and he loved his man
\nBut on that bloody Tuesday morning
\nHe died an American<\/p>\nNow you cannot change this
\nYou can’t erase this
\nYou can’t pretend this is not the truth<\/p>\nEven though he could not marry
\nOr teach your children in our schools
\nBecause who he wants to love
\nIs breaking your Gods‘ rules
\nHe stood up on a Tuesday morning
\nIn the terror he was brave
\nAnd he made his choice
\nAnd without a doubt
\nA hundred lives he must have saved<\/p>\nAnd the things you might take for granted
\nYour inalienable rights
\nSome might chose to deny him
\nEven though he gave his life
\nCan you live with yourself in the land of the free
\nAnd make him less of a hero than the other three
\nWell it might begin to change ya
\nIn a field in Pennsylvania<\/p>\nStand up America
\nHear the bell now as it tolls
\nWake up America
\nIt’s Tuesday morning
\nCome on let’s roll<\/p><\/blockquote>\n– Melissa Etheridge<\/a>, Tuesday Morning<\/a> (zu finden auf dem großartigen Album Lucky<\/a>„)<\/p>\n
Zum Hintergrund:<\/p>\n
„I remember getting People magazine with the stories of Flight 93, how these heroes did it. They get to Mark Bingham and there’s his lover, and I thought, ‚Oh my god!‘ I hadn’t heard that until I saw the People magazine. Time goes by, and the government starts putting out the benefits for the families of those who lost their lives; a certain percentage of people who lost their lives, of course, were homosexual-at least 10% of any population is gonna be homosexual-and the government says no. All of a sudden, that felt uncomfortable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wäre ich in den Türmen gewesen, wäre mein Leben weniger wert gewesen als das der meisten anderen. Kein schöner Gedanke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ich war die ganze Nacht wach gewesen, hatte mit T. telefoniert oder gechattet? Neverwinter Nights gespielt? Ich weiß nicht mehr. Wir verabschiedeten uns online, kurz darauf klingelte mein Telefon – T. war dran und meinte, ich solle den Fernseher anmachen. Ich weiß noch, dass mein erster Gedanke „Krieg“ war und ich Angst hatte, der Rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,34,7],"tags":[162,150,161],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leben-universum-alles","category-kabale-und-liebe","category-queerschlaeger","tag-162","tag-melissa-etheridge","tag-patriotismus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feylamia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}