Is there anything left to be said about 9/11?

Daniellle Zazula lost her partner Dan who worked on the 97th floor of the World Trade Centre. She says
"I thought it would bring me relief. But instead it reopened the wound."
She was talking about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

All of the three thousand souls who perished in the World Trade Centre had a human meaning; a personal meaning; a meaning not to do with history or US foreign policy or the Middle East. But that is exactly what their government turned them into. They and their families and friends did not choose their legacy, their meaning, to be murderous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That decision was made for them. Above their heads. Behind their backs. Human misery parleyed into new, vast swathes of human misery and war by Presidents, Prime Ministers, Generals and Carpet Baggers.

This day, ten years later and the news groups announce;
'More than 2200 now killed by the authorities in Syria.'

These young men and women too have a personal, a human meaning. But they have also created for themselves a striking mark in human history. They decide to fight a corrupt dictatorship in the name of freedom. Whatever the outcome of their struggle anywhere and everywhere that people decide to challenge fear and venal authority their sacrifice will be remembered.

Sudden death is always heartbreaking. There are always human costs. But while the US government is completely unable to speak for those who died on 9/11, we can all, if we choose, speak for those who have fallen in Syria.