Althouse: "I'm known all over as The Dust Lady."

August 26, 2015

"I'm known all over as The Dust Lady."

Marcy Borders, a woman we know from a photograph taken September 11, 2001...

... has died, perhaps from the dust.

17 comments:

David Begley said...: And the Islamists are stronger on 9-11-15 than they were on 9-11-01.

Thank you Barack and Hillary for your historic leadership in protecting America and making it stronger. /sarc x100.; 8/26/15, 7:47 AM
tim in vermont said...: While we are thanking people, lets thank Bill Clinton for kicking off the pissing match with Afghanistan and bin Laden by launching missile attacks against that sovereign nation without UN approval.

But he did have the issues with sexual harassment of multiple underlings and charges of rape to distract us from, so I guess it was all worth it and we should bring back the good old days!; 8/26/15, 8:02 AM
David Begley said...: Tim:

We don't need the approval of the UN to protect our country. If Bill would have been doing his job instead of jumping women not his wife, there would have been no 9-11.

But glad you agree that Hillary and Bill should not return to the White House. We don't need the drama of Bill and interns again.; 8/26/15, 8:06 AM
JAORE said...: Well that spun out of control quickly.

The article tries mightily to connect the dots between her stomach cancer and 9-11. Could be, especially if you credit the years of substance abuse. But, of course, there is no definitive way to make the link. Serves as a hook to make the story more than person with 15 minutes of fame dies.; 8/26/15, 8:22 AM
Scott said...: I hope she was one of the survivors who got a big pile of cash before she died. I'm still waiting for mine.; 8/26/15, 8:30 AM
David said...: Watch the video clip. She is sweet, gentle, humble, quietly eloquent. She was also sensible. Her "supervisor" was trying to get her to stay in the building but she felt the danger (to the point of panic) and left. She was 42 when she died. This happened when she was 28 years old.; 8/26/15, 9:32 AM
Big Mike said...: She had almost 14 more years of life than 2,977 of her fellow Americans. So there's that.; 8/26/15, 10:05 AM
wildswan said...: People get caught by huge events and then sometimes can't make sense of their own lives afterward. They can't get back to meaning - maybe because they want to see the point of what happened to them. But some of us are just tiny homes lost in amidst relentless power like a house in Alpine avalanche. The meaning is elsewhere or later.; 8/26/15, 10:33 AM
Nichevo said...: Did she do something wrong? I detect hostility towards her.; 8/26/15, 11:17 AM
Scott said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/26/15, 11:59 AM
Scott said...: "I detect hostility towards her."

Honestly, so what. She's dead, and probably in the embrace of a loving God who is giving her better than she ever got on this Earth. Now her value on this terrestrial ball is as a cultural mini-icon.; 8/26/15, 12:00 PM
Robert Cook said...: "We don't need the approval of the UN to protect our country."

We do need UN Security Council approval to launch a war against another country, unless that country has launched or is about to launch an attack against us.

Afghanistan never attacked, and neither did Iraq. Thus, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are brother war criminals. (It's not as if they are the only presidents who are war criminals.); 8/26/15, 3:56 PM
H said...: THere's no good reason for this, but I especially mourn those for whom I have prayed.; 8/26/15, 4:15 PM
The Godfather said...: The video of the "Dust Lady" was very moving. Towards the end of it, my computer started playing a harsh, demanding voice about some unrelated subject (it's a new computer, and there still are some of those auto-play dragons that I haven't slain). It was a Bernie Sanders ad. Now I'm convinced that to Bernie Black Lives Don't Matter.; 8/26/15, 5:10 PM
cubanbob said...: Robert Cook said...
"We don't need the approval of the UN to protect our country."

We do need UN Security Council approval to launch a war against another country, unless that country has launched or is about to launch an attack against us."

We don't need the approval of the UN for anything. Until such time the UN acquires a military strong enough to impose it's will on the US we can choose to ignore it at no peril. When the UN does acquires such a force then you would have a point. You might have noticed large countries with powerful armed forces basically ignore the Un when it suits them.; 8/26/15, 7:57 PM
Big Mike said...: @cubanbob, UN "Peacekeepers" couldn't convince a ragtag pack of Serbian paramilitary nationalists not to enter Srebrenica and slaughter the population. They certainly aren't going to dissuade the US from defending itself.; 8/26/15, 8:43 PM
William said...: Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. Not much symbolism in those final words.; 8/26/15, 10:29 PM