Aig writing

Halfway there.

Got book one finished, and after making the third round of fixes, am awaiting the final, final, final approval. That's generally the way it goes.
Been making notes and working on fleshing out the plot for the second book while it is still fresh in mine mind. 
Do i have much energy for writing other than my books? not really. and my self editor is uber tired, so there you have it. I'm not doing much editing for posts. 

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road

A thought or two on Osama Bin Laden.

 
As a former New Yorker, 9-11 has some significance for me. 

Not as much for someone who lost someone they knew in the attacks, or witnessed it, and had to experience the craven fear of buildings collapsing around them, or not knowing where the next attack was coming from... but I spent that entire day, standing in front of the television set, unable to do anything else.

 I cannot describe the anger of that day, or the frustration later, on concerning the war in Afghanistan, or Iraq, or anything else, except I wanted to see the authorities get the people who were behind all of this and prove to the rest of the world that you don't do things like that and get away with them.

So, they have gotten to many of the people responsible for the string of attacks around the world. Little by little. 

I just didn't really expect they would find Number 1 himself, or even that anybody knew where he was. So, it was surprising-- yet not so surprising-- that he was living in a "mansion" behind 7-18 foot barbed wire topped walls, crammed in with a bunch of other people who were his family, I guess.
 
Interestingly though i never hated the man, I didn't feel that kind of emotion when I saw his pictures. All the other guys, in Al Qu'aeda and Taliban, etc. annoyed me to no end, but OBL himself seemed to have a presence that came across to me as someone with... a clear conscience. Like he really believed what he was doing was righteous. Really creepy. So when someone does evil, they don't always look like an evil person, do they. Evil is as evil does...
 
Seeing New Yorkers celebrating made me tear up then I sat and sobbed away, as though I was getting rid of something I've had frozen in there somewhere, for the last decade. 
 
Hearing OBL was dead made me terribly sad. 
 
Gratified that he was finally caught, and glad to be silencing those who thought the authorities were too stupid to catch him, and maybe some of these other terrorists will realize you can't go killing thousands and traumatizing millions of innocent people and get away with it, because you won't. 
 
Sad because a lot of people follow ideals that mislead, and twist truth, and often the go to the grave without knowing it. Some do learn the truth, and they shrug off the burden of evil and turn to living a better life. It has happened. 
 
Some people out there who were former terrorists did repent and leave their life of crime, and they dedicated the rest of their lives speaking out against the evil they once followed. I'd always hoped OBL would take that path, even though he still had to pay the consequences of what he'd done in the past. 
Who knows what his state of mind was in the end, maybe he had repented. 
Then again, maybe not.  I don't know, and I won't judge... i just hate to see death and pain and innocents suffering. 
 
Anyway, I'm done with this subject... just wanted to say something.