There’s a lot of stuff coming at us about the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I’ve read some of it, meant to read more — but haven’t had time.
But I did have time to enjoy this cartoon from back then that Bill Day shared with me today. You’ll recall that my compadre Robert Ariail did some really strong cartoons at that time. But I can’t seem to find those online at the moment, and I thought you might enjoy seeing one you hadn’t seen before.
Here is some of Bill’s commentary on it:
We sold the prints for only $3.00 each, the newspaper supplies the envelopes and postage, and volunteers did all the work. We pulled in $30,000! I still get requests from firemen all over the country and never charge them. We gave checks to the families at a beautiful awards ceremony with the Fire Chief presiding with all the brass, Detroit Mayor, City Council members, and my newspaper publisher, editor, and editorial page editor there…
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I love dogs. With the association of Dalmations with firemen, well, that drawing tugs at the heart.
Do you know if reprints are available?
What happened in NYC and Washington and PA on 9/11/2001 was terrible. Lots of terrible things happen all the time. We don’t seem to care nearly so much about them as about the mostly upper middle class people who perished on 9/11/2001. The hagiography of those who died who were not firefighters or other first responders or those who challenged the highjackers, is excessive!
Ralph, I’ll see what I can find out.
And Kathryn, “hagiography”? First, I only see that with regard to the firemen and cops and those who tried to stop the hijackers. And second, did you pick up using that word from me?
And 3,000 innocent civilians don’t die violently and suddenly “all the time.” Not in this country, and not anywhere else. It was a very, very rare event. It would happen more often if terrorists had their way, but this was the most spectacularly successful terrorist attack of all time. Note, that I said “terrorist attack.” No, it was nothing near the losses of, say, the firebombing of Dresden. But that was war, not a sudden stroke out of a clear, blue sky upon people who did not know they were at war.
Speaking of which — I wonder why we never hear as much about what happened at the Pentagon? I’ve seldom heard ANYTHING about it. Of course, while the Pentagon is the world’s biggest building, it’s horizontal, and doesn’t fall spectacularly. And there were fewer losses. AND they were to a great extent people who had put on risk, theoretically, with the uniform.
But it seems like we’d hear SOMETHING about it…
Ralph, I sent you Bill’s address. He’ll be happy to help you.
Maybe I’m a sentimental old softy, but that just jerks the tears right out.
Thanks for posting this, Brad. I hadn’t seen it before. I keep a collection of iconic images as a rotating backdrop on my computer at school. They include images of earth from Apollo 8, Iwo Jima, the sailor and nurse in Times Square on V-E day, the Lange’s Migrant Mother, the redwoods and others. The kids ask me about them, and they start some interesting conversations. I’ll certainly add this image to the rotation.
Very moving.