Freeman Dyson on Martyr Airlines

[Major Variola (ret)]

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.

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