Happy 9/11 from 2021!
Here it is already: the twentieth anniversary of the event that started it all. My, how times have changed.
Everybody here in the camp is really looking forward to the day's festivities, I can tell you, though it's nice just having the day off from digging through the rubble. Not so much for the memorial services, as sad and necessary as they still are, but the traditional Pig Roast scheduled after the mandatory Victory Parade and Effigy Burning is being eagerly anticipated. Real meat for once!
Afterwards, they say there will be a musical pageant, put on by the surviving theatre types from nearby San Francisco Relocation Camp 13. Personally, after the last outbreak of bird flu, I'm surprised there's anybody left at all there but if the authorities feel it's safe enough to bring them over, I'm sure it will be fine.
And this year, a special treat for me. I get to go to the big Knife Sale! Yes, I've finally earned enough Good Citizenship Points to merit a breadknife of my very own, which will make it a lot easier to eat that [censored] Soylent [censored]. And I don't care if the [censored] mailbot censors that, [censored]!
Sorry. I'm a little edgy -- need more pacifier pills. This place has gotten a bit more crowded what with the recent influx after the President militarized the Boy and Girl Scouts. Though I'm proud to say that twice as many dissidents volunteered to serve from my camp than any other in the entire Western Region once the Mahdi took Rome and beheaded the Pope. I'd have done so myself since they raised the age limit, except that since I'd already volunteered for drug experiments I wasn't allowed to... and [censored], I still keep seeing those [censored] big blue dogs all the time. Wish they'd let me alone.
Anyway, I stand firmly behind President Bush. Yeah, there've been a few mistakes, but I'm sure she knows what she's doing.
Rumor is that during her annual State of the War speech tonight, Jenna's going to announce real progress in the hunt for Enemy #1. Yeah, I know you've heard it before, too, but the intel on the inside here is that they've finally tracked Cheney down to an undisclosed location in Antarctica. [censored], if only we'd known he was an evil cyborg working with Osama all along...
If they actually get him this time, perhaps the continental blockade would finally end. Who knows? Maybe the Chinese would even let us return to the Moon.
In any event, the only thing missing from a good old-fashioned 9/11 Day celebration here today will be the fireworks. Of course, with the Terror Level at Tangerine Alpha, they can't risk it, but it's probably just as well. Fireworks or any loud noises tend to make our guards who were redeployed vets from the Border Campaign real nervous. Some are quite twitchy enough already what with the recent mortar attacks. Thank goodness they drink the same medicated water as the rest of us do.
Gotta go. It's time for the 11-Minute Hate, which I really don't want to miss, and looks like I've used up my email allowance, anyway. Probably won't be able to write again until the next memorial anniversary, that of the gassing of Disneyworld. You know, I still have nightmares from those awful films of Mickey and the others...
Well, even if I have to work that day, I'm glad they haven't made it a national holiday like September 11 yet. Some things deserve our respect.
Jay
Detainee #10-1-3279-UCD
Dissident Reeducation Camp #23
"Work makes us free."