Creeped out

I was half watching the television as my brother landed on a commercial for a new coin issued for by the National Collectors Mint. The coin is a September 11th memorial coin "minted from pure .999 silver salvaged from Ground Zero" according to the ad.

And a shiver went down my spine... like someone was tapdancing on my grave.

I realize that the silver used in this coin was recovered from a bank vault that had been in the lower levels of the building. However, the idea of making a profit from a tragedy of that magnetude sickens me. It's akin to robbing from graves and then hawking the proceeds on eBay. It would be like selling coins minted from recovered portions of ships damaged beyond repair at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

This what also galls me about the way the Bush/Cheney conduct their campaign. They have taken a tragedy and turned it to their own gain. If you don't believe their way is the right way, you're dishonoring the memory of those that died in the fall of the towers, in Afghanistan and in Iraq... and hope you'll ignore the fact that perhaps those people would never have died at all if maybe they had paid attention to what their predecessors were trying to tell them.

I wish I lived in a swing state so my support of John Kerry may have an impact.