JazzManJim
On the Downbeat
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- Sep 12, 2001
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Thank you Roger Simon! 
Here's a taste:
"And then I awoke on Sunday morning and faced the grim reality: The terrorists had struck.
Nothing moved on the streets. Not a car, no a person, not even a dog or cat. The entire world was silent.
As I reached for the phone to call Homeland Defense to report the attack, I was fearful I might be the last person alive.
So I felt no small amount of relief when somebody answered on the other end.
“Can you describe the attack?” the Homeland Defense guy asked.
Tiny white flakes are falling from the sky by the millions, I said, my voice shaking. They are quite cold, but when you take them inside to examine them, they melt! Yet, outside, they stick together in great, impassable heaps. I never realized that Iraq had such technology!
“Sir,” the Homeland Defense guy said, “I think you are experiencing snow.”
Impossible! I said. This is everything the terrorists wanted: the complete paralysis of the Eastern Times Zone of the United States! No planes, trains, buses or cars are moving! People are not only afraid to leave their homes, they are unable to leave their homes! This is the very definition of terrorism! If it was not Iraq, it must be al Qaeda."
Here's a taste:
"And then I awoke on Sunday morning and faced the grim reality: The terrorists had struck.
Nothing moved on the streets. Not a car, no a person, not even a dog or cat. The entire world was silent.
As I reached for the phone to call Homeland Defense to report the attack, I was fearful I might be the last person alive.
So I felt no small amount of relief when somebody answered on the other end.
“Can you describe the attack?” the Homeland Defense guy asked.
Tiny white flakes are falling from the sky by the millions, I said, my voice shaking. They are quite cold, but when you take them inside to examine them, they melt! Yet, outside, they stick together in great, impassable heaps. I never realized that Iraq had such technology!
“Sir,” the Homeland Defense guy said, “I think you are experiencing snow.”
Impossible! I said. This is everything the terrorists wanted: the complete paralysis of the Eastern Times Zone of the United States! No planes, trains, buses or cars are moving! People are not only afraid to leave their homes, they are unable to leave their homes! This is the very definition of terrorism! If it was not Iraq, it must be al Qaeda."
