![]() ![]() She worked for the Aon Corp., and it is believed she was waiting at her desk that morning to find out about his first day of preschool.Įddie Bracken spoke for her, spoke for all the victims. He said it in memory of his sister, who left behind a 3-year-old son, Jason, on Sept. Let freedom ring, let freedom ring, let freedom ring - and that’s what I have to say,” Bracken said. You read the letters Bin Laden left behind, the sheer dumbness of them, then put that up against what you heard from Eddie Bracken in Cuba. You kept waiting to find out in those letters that he was thinking about plastic surgery before the SEALs came through the door. The most wanted man on the planet acting like some insecure aging actress. But justice.īin Laden: Another pathetic figure, like the ones in the courtroom, the great Bin Laden coloring his hair at the end to look younger and taking Viagra and worrying about his legacy and his relevance now that there were other younger terrorists coming along. This trial is another part of a long and painful process for him, for all victim families, one year after Navy SEALs took out Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Later Bracken came outside and said what he said as best as it could be said. Bracken stared back at Binalshibh and called him a “motherf-er.” A hero of his city in that moment, the city the ones on trial at Guantanamo tried to blow up and could not. How there will never be closure for those who lost loved ones that day.Įddie Bracken had saved his real anger for when he had been inside, when he had done as much as he could without going right through the glass at Binalshibh, who looked right at him, smiled, gave him a thumbs-up sign. This was a New Yorker speaking from the heart more than 10 years later, reminding everybody, because of this trial, because the world gets to get a look at Sheikh Mohammed and Ammar al-Baluchi and Ramzi Binalshibh and the rest of them, how raw the memories of that Tuesday morning 101/2 years ago still are, and always will be in New York. ![]() Bush standing on the rubble of the World Trade Center with his bullhorn, his great bullhorn moment. And when he got outside, he read this statement and made you proud he is one of ours: 11, was right there with other victim family members this weekend. So Bracken, of Staten Island, who lost his sister Lucy Fishman on Sept. Of course, there is nothing remarkable about the punks he had seen inside the courtroom or the show they think they are putting on, starting with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, constantly called a “mastermind” but only looking like every unhinged, dead-eyed perp you have ever seen, the ones who always look the same on their way to the gates of hell.īut Eddie Bracken wanted to see them himself, had to see himself, didn’t want to watch on television from Brooklyn or one of the other venues where family members and friends of victims watched this trial begin to play out in military court. 11, 2001, speaking up for his dead sister and his city and even for his country. There was Eddie Bracken of Staten Island on Sunday, standing outside that courtroom in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a long way from home and a long way from Sept. ![]()
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