Hard (and sad) evidence on Flight 77 and Soul Sickness in the Body Politic

P200029	Photograph of the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building
P200030	Photograph of airplane parts in the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building
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P200041	Photograph of the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building
P200042	Photograph of a body part found inside the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building [Viewer discretion is advised]
P200045	Photograph of a body found inside the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building [Viewer discretion is advised]
P200047	Photograph of bodies found inside the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building [Viewer discretion is advised]
P200048	Photograph of a body found inside the Pentagon after Flight 77 crashed into the building [Viewer discretion is advised]

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I ran across a comment by someone who claimed there were no airplane parts or bodies in the Pentagon attack. I am always amazed when I run across people willing to believe the most awful atrocities by the people they hate, instead of actually acknowledging the reality of what the people who hate them will do. These are trial evidence photos, and they do include photos in situ of people who had been horridly burned during the attack, and pictures of smashed airplane parts. Some of those pictures I saw in news reports at the very beginning of the story.

Some people like Dylan Avery, who is very young and very impassioned, would rather believe that the US government managed to do something with the people on Flight 93, and then used the flight as an excuse to do dastardly deeds.

Mary Katherine Hamm notes: "Among Avery’s tributes to those victims is the part of the film where he alleges that Mark Bingham, a Flight 93 passenger, never talked to his mother from the plane that day, despite the fact that there’s a recording of the call. He alleges that the phone calls that came from the plane that day were somehow created by voice simulators, possibly with the collusion of the Flight 93 passengers.

"He alleges that Flight 93 never crashed in Pennsylvania, but landed in Ohio. We are left to wonder just what the dastardly government did with the passengers on that plane if they were on the ground safely in Ohio on the morning of Sept. 11."

For some reason, for some people, it is easy to build on the fertile ground of previous anti-war and anti-government feeling and believe a huge conspiracy was made so we could get into Iraq, than believe the people who actually claimed they did it, to believe the clear and easy to follow paper trail of their actions. This fits in nicely with comments from people like Mubarak who also doubt that the young men actually could mastermind and do this thing on their own. In his case, it's a situation of not wanting to believe people would do such high level evil in the name of his religion. In the American case, it shows a great sickness of of the national soul to even begin to beleive Americans would do things like this to Americans, especially people who, although not perfect, and although might not do things the way others want them to, believe in goodness and act on it as they see fit.

There is so much demonization out there that many of us have trouble seeing through the smokescreens we find ourselves behind. If it fits our worldview, we believe it without examining it. And the fact that this fits some of our citizens' world views is a sad commentary on where the US is right now. And it is a sadder commentary on the soul sickness and anger and hate of those who keep feeding it.