Cliff's
Terrorism
Diaries
Saturday,
January
5,
2002—Ground
Zero
Plus
116
SNOW!!
Purifying
The
Fear
Of
Terrorism
by
Cliff
McKenzie
Editor,
New
York
City
Combat
Correspondent
News
Snow!!
It
purifies
the
fear
of
Terrorism.
It
makes
us
make
a
choice.
I
woke
up
at
3:30
this
morning.
I’m
waiting
for
the
first
snow.
Snow
represents
a
cleansing
of
the
seasons.
I
await
its
power
to
blanket
the
earth
with
purity,
wholesomeness,
and
a
refreshing
reminder
that
what
was
once
changes,
and
becomes
the
past.
Snow
is
an
emotional
eraser.
It
renews
the
idea
of
things
being
constant,
of
life
being
linear.
It
reminds
us
all
there
is
a
time
to
sleep,
for
it
is
Heaven’s
blanket,
covering
all
with
its
bedspread.
September
11th
rocked
the
world.
At
least,
it
rocked
mine.
It
brought
Terrorism
into
the
homes
of
millions
of
Americans,
and
reminded
us
all
that
we
could
be
as
vulnerable
to
attacks
as
the
citizens
of
any
country.
It
took
away
the
security
blanket
we
have
enjoyed
for
decades
upon
decades.
The
first
snow
in
New
York
City
will
end
the
Season
of
Terror.
As
it
falls
and
covers
the
earth,
it
will
disguise
the
rupture
in
the
womb
of
the
earth
at
the
World
Trade
Center.
It
will
cover
the
cracks
in
the
sidewalk,
the
buckles
on
the
streets
and
hide
the
rubble
and
twisted
metal
under
its
protective
cover.
For
a
few
moments,
maybe
a
few
hours,
perhaps
even
days,
the
whitewashing
of
the
snow
will
shift
my
thinking
away
from
the
day
when
I
stood
watching
people
jumping
from
the
Twin
Towers,
and
horrible
rumble
of
the
earth
as
it
exploded
under
the
weight
of
one
of
the
world’s
largest
icons
collapsing
into
a
pile
of
death
and
destruction.
Snow
will
heal
some
of
the
wounds
of
the
Second
Tuesday
in
September.
It
will
be
a
virginal
reminder
that
what
was
then,
isn’t
today.
Purity
will
replace
Ravage.
Cleanliness
will
cover
Violation.
Serenity
will
overpower
Chaos.
Snow
does
that.
It
changes
the
Season
of
Terror.
It
smothers
the
Beast
of
Terror
with
the
wings
of
angels.
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The
snowflakes
will
fall
as
feathers
from
Heaven,
kissing
the
wounds
of
the
earth,
healing
them
in
a
private,
celestial
solace
that
cannot
be
understood
or
reported
with
words—for
it
is
a
simple
feeling
that
one
senses
that
it
is
time
to
move
forward,
to
rebuild
a
world
tainted
and
tarnished
by
the
violence
and
corruption
of
those
who
try
to
impose
their
hatred,
anger
and
envy
upon
others
with
brutality
against
the
innocent
and
helpless.
Snow
is
Innocence
itself.
It
falls
like
a
baby’s
being—void
of
any
anguish
or
tumultuousness.
Historically,
black
has
been
deemed
the
color
of
“evil”—it’s
backdrop.
We
illustrate
“evil”
in
paintings
by
darkening
them;
putting
figures
in
black
capes,
and
calling
voids
in
space
that
suck
the
energy
of
all
life
into
them,
“black
holes.”
We
call
evil
men
and
women
“those
with
black
hearts.”
White,
the
essence
of
snow,
is
the
absence
of
black.
It
is
the
symbol
of
that
which
is
pure,
innocent,
and
faultless.
A
newborn
child,
regardless
of
skin
color,
has
a
“white
heart”—it
is
purity
at
its
best.
It
is
like
the
snow.
Its
innocence
is
the
hope
of
the
future.
As
I
await
the
first
snow,
I
think
about
the
purity
it
will
bring.
I
think
about
all
the
children
who
will
be
born
on
the
day
of
the
first
snow.
I
think
of
their
innocence.
And
I
think
about
the
need
we,
as
Citizens
of
Vigilance
have
to
protect
that
innocence.
The
snow
will
not
eliminate
Terrorism’s
threat.
It
will
not
wash
away
the
horror
of
what
happened
on
September
11th,
or
the
possibility
that
it
might
recur
in
other
forms,
administered
by
other
“evil
black
hearts.”
But
it
will
freeze
in
our
minds
the
concept
of
“purity.”
It
will
purify
and
illustrate
the
need
to
protect
the
innocent
from
future
harm.
It
will
symbolize
the
priority
we
all
have
to
become
Citizens
of
Vigilance,
vowing
to
protect
our
children,
their
children,
and
their
children’s
children
from
the
ravages
of
Terrorism.
When
the
first
snow
falls
and
we
joyously
greet
it
as
it
covers
the
wounds
of
the
past,
we
will
face
a
choice.
The
choice
will
be
to
either
forget
September
11th,
or
to
vow
to
act
in
such
as
way
as
to
insure
another
September
11th
doesn’t
happen.
The
purity
of
the
snow
will
remind
us
we
can
take
responsibility
for
our
future
security,
or
ignore
it
and
hope
that
something
like
the
destruction
of
the
Twin
Towers
and
the
Pentagon
was
only
a
stitch
in
time,
an
anomaly
from
which
we
are
now
safe.
Snow
will
clean
the
slate
between
commitment
and
indifference.
It
will
erase
the
option
one
has
to
straddle
the
fence
between:
“I
can’t
do
anything
because
I’m
just
one
individual
so
therefore
I
won’t
do
anything”
and
“I
can
do
something
by
becoming
a
Citizen
of
Vigilance
and
be
aware
of
my
responsibility
to
fight
Terrorism
by
not
becoming
complacent
in
my
thinking
or
actions.”
The
first
snow
will
remind
us
all
to
“fight
or
flee.”
We
can
use
the
power
of
its
purity
to
renew
our
commitment
to
“never
forget”
what
happened
on
September
11th,
or,
we
can
pretend
that
it
will
never
happen
again,
and
let
complacency
rule
our
lives.
I
plan
on
renewing
my
vows
to
remain
Semper
Vigilantes—Always
Vigilant—on
the
day
of
the
first
snow.
I
plan
on
going
down
to
Ground
Zero
and
looking
up
at
the
Sentinels
of
Vigilance—those
3,000
plus
souls
who
gave
their
lives
for
all
of
us
on
that
fateful
day
in
September—and
telling
them
I
understand
they
gave
their
lives
to
remind
me
to
stay
vigilant
and
protect
the
innocence
of
the
children
of
our
society.
I
will
see
the
Sentinels
of
Vigilance
falling
from
the
sky
in
the
form
of
every
snowflake,
reminding
me
they
will
never
forget,
and
reminding
me
to
remind
others
they
are
still
alive
in
spirit,
season
by
season,
watching,
protecting
us
from
Terrorism’s
greatest
black
hole—that
of
complacency.
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