Project 2996

A Green Shoots nomination for Project 2996, a cooperative project to remember those who were murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.

The shock can wear off after time, 2996 on September 11, untold thousands at places like Shiloh and Gettysburg, the some 2500 lost on D-Day, the horrendous casualties taken by the Marines on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the fire-bombing of Dresden(in response to the fire-bombing of Coventry, in response to the air-raids on Munich, in a war seeking vengeance for 1914-1918...on it goes.)

OldSouth hopes the shock never wears off on this one. These people were guilty of nothing more than going about their lives, and many died because they chose to stay behind and assist those around them.

They were killed because...we won't know the whole story for some decades. That's how history works. But they were the victims of one of the sickest forms of religious zealotry in history, sourced in Islam.

Project 2996 will help keep that sense of shock alive, by putting a name and face to each innocent victim. We will continue to need it, since our politicians and cultural mavens wish to somehow tuck it away in the dark file cabinets of memory.