9/11

Another 9/11 anniversary and we are still at war with the wrong enemy in the wrong country, and still being mis-led by the wrong President.

Garrison Keillor takes note in his daily The Writer's Almanac of Bruce Springsteen's response to the 9/11 tragedy:

One of the people who read the "Portraits of Grief" was the singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen, and he noticed how many of the victims of the attacks had loved his music. So he started calling the spouses of the victims on the telephone to express his condolences. One of the people he called said, "I got through Joe's memorial and a good month and a half on that phone call."

Less than a year later Springsteen released his album The Rising (2002), with songs written in response to the attacks, many of the lyrics based on the stories people told him in those phone calls.