Freeman Dyson on Martyr Airlines

Recalling his boyhood in London, [Freeman] Dyson recounts how during the Blitz he lay in bed rejoicing in the delicious sound of buildings falling down. To the budding physicist and ardent anti-colonialist he then was, the imminent danger to his own person was nothing compared to the joy of hearing the great British Empire audibly crumbling. In one of the more frank commentaries I have read on the attacks anywhere, Dyson tells us that he can easily imagine the state of mind of the young men who so resolutely smashed those planes into the buildings. Almost I could have been one of them myself. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/laweekly/20011101/lo/29656_1.html