Fear & Loathing in America: Hunter S. Thompson's 9/11 Reflection

FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICA by Hunter S. Thompson (9/11 Response)
From ESPN, September 12, 2001

Summary: Hunter Thompson reflects on 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and gives an eerily accurate vision of the post 9/11 world.

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Narrated by Clayton L Luce
October 17, 2014


By Hunter S. Thompson
Page 2 columnist

It was just after dawn in Woody Creek, Colo., when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday morning, and as usual I was writing about sports. But not for long. Football suddenly seemed irrelevant, compared to the scenes of destruction and utter devastation coming out of New York on TV.


Even ESPN was broadcasting war news. It was the worst disaster in the history of the United States, including Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco earthquake and probably the Battle of Antietam in 1862, when 23,000 were slaughtered in one day.
The Battle of the World Trade Center lasted about 99 minutes and cost 20,000 lives in two hours (according to unofficial estimates as of midnight Tuesday). The final numbers, including those from the supposedly impregnable Pentagon, across the Potomac River from Washington, likely will be higher. Anything that kills 300 trained firefighters in two hours is a world-class disaster.

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