{"id":642,"date":"2008-09-11T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=642"},"modified":"2010-09-05T23:38:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T03:38:02","slug":"it-was-seven-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2008\/09\/11\/it-was-seven-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It was seven years ago today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2008\/09\/gus911tanner.jpg\" alt=\"Gustavo at Tanner Fountain, North Yard.\" width=\"480\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harvard alum and employee Gustavo at Tanner Fountain, North Yard.<\/p>\n<h2>Despite all the posturing, do we really know what happened? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpublicopinion.org\/pipa\/articles\/international_security_bt\/535.php?nid=&amp;id=&amp;pnt=535\" target=\"_blank\">Who was responsible?<\/a> Was the U.S. response justified? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSN1043793620080910?sp=true\" target=\"_blank\">Has it been useful<\/a>?<\/h2>\n<p>I still remember, Sabrina Daniel, daughter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/fdny\/html\/memorial\/wtc\/cherry_vernon_ff_lad118.html\" target=\"_blank\">fallen NYC firefighter Vernon Cherry<\/a>, on the day of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan<sup>1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It don&#8217;t make me feel no better, because I know that somewhere halfway around the world there is a daughter just like me, who just lost her father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Firefighter Cherry was still missing at the time. Sabrina&#8217;s mother, Joanne Cherry,  would not hear of the idea that he was lost. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fallenbrothers.com\/community\/showthread.php?t=755\" target=\"_blank\">In early January 2009 his turnout coat was found at ground zero as well as the bodies of three other firefighters from the Brooklyn based Ladder 118 = &#8220;fire under the bridge.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.911pictures.com\/images\/previews_lg\/911-1489.jpg\" alt=\"Ladder 118 enroute to WTC\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ladder 118 enroute to the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2001<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing inquiries:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.911truth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">911truth.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ae911truth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Architects and Engineers for 9\/11 Truth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard alum and employee Gustavo at Tanner Fountain, North Yard. Despite all the posturing, do we really know what happened? Who was responsible? Was the U.S. response justified? Has it been useful? I still remember, Sabrina Daniel, daughter of fallen NYC firefighter Vernon Cherry, on the day of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan1. It don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sand-oil-and-tears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}