Time Heals all Wound Clocks

Or, Who's watching our invisible Towers?

Did you wonder (wounder) how to pronounce the "wound" in the title? Me too.

This is my gentle, non-garish intro into putting a bit of perspective (certain to be unappreciated) into the recent 9/11 reviews.

Take this, for instance: Between Feb. & July, 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, the British, French and Germans combined to total up 420,000, 200,00 and 500,000 casualties,respectively. A third of these were deaths. Of the remaining 2/3s, half wished they were dead.

The little (relatively speaking) itty-bitty battle of Iwo Jima killed a bit more than 20,000 Japanese and 6,700 Americans. The Americans had over 21,000 wounded.

Rome erased Carthage from the map.

Each year Americans get to bury over 50,000 dead vehicle drivers and passengers. (Yes, we have wrought a mighty wrecking.)


This list could go on and on. But 95% of our citizens don't, and actually can't!) care. But a goodly percentage of us do care about 9/11. But Time will take care of this. Just ask any GenXer, as he's getting out of his Honda, with his Toshiba laptop, eager to get inside to play on his PS2 about his outrage at what happened on 12/07/41.

I have no point, except to try to excuse just how blase I am about all this meting out of death and destruction that we humans do. Good thing we're so prolific.