Just a couple of comments.

Like my previous (completed) work, this was done in a 24 hour
period. I dunno what that may say about me or the way I write.

It means you're a bad person, obviously.  Bad, bad, bad!

Those thoughts were on the forefront of my mind on the last day of my
life, a day which should have come far sooner then it did. I stood in
the Tendou Dojo. It looked a lot different now, compared to when it
had been practically demolished and rebuilt every week. That hadn't
happened for almost twenty years, now. I was going to change that.

The 'twenty years' thing is the only part of the story that doesn't work for
me.  It's hard to believe that twenty years have passed.  There is no
mention of a change in Ryouga's physical appearance, Cologne is still alive
and we don't know at what point in the twenty years she was so, Kasumi and
Tofu are together and presumably married yet no kids are mentioned.  Just
little things that are absent which make the 'twenty years' comment not mesh
quite right.

I was sitting down in my first hour class on Tuesday, when someone
turned on the TV. I didn't feel shock, or horror, or anything. This
wasn't real. This is the sort of thing that happens in Tom Clancy's
novels. I don't know when it became real. I think it was around the
time that I saw the second tower collapse on live television.

The towers mean nothing to me. They're just chunks of metal in a
faraway city. But I am cursed with a vivid imagination, and oh my god
the people.

That night I dreamt of time machines.

But there won't be that kind of heroism, that kind of salvation. There
is no deus ex machina. Instead, we honor the people who dug through
the rubble, who sacrificed their lives to keep themselves from being
used as a weapon. Perhaps that's a greater form of heroism.

The subject of retribution and revenge will come up. I doubt my
opinion would be asked by the US Government, but if they did, I would
say this. The bastards who did this ought to be tried by their own
law. Murder carries one and only one punishment under the Koran. I
think perhaps that that would make a far greater statement than
detonating a nuke over the terrorist camp or sending in commando teams
to wipe them out.

I hope only that there will be some sort of closure, and, obscene as
it may sound, that we can put this behind us and carry on. I am
afraid that this might not be the case.

Jonathan Rosebaugh
9:33 PM, Central Standard Time, 13 September 2001

I hope that the people responsible for this get caught and punished, and
that something is done to prevent such things from happening in the future,
but I'm not holding my breath.  I just don't have enough faith in our
government or any government to do so.  I am, however, keeping my fingers
crossed.

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