Born in suburban Dutchess County, N.Y. Gary Luhmann enjoyed the Big Boom through high school, played football, attended Hamilton College, and afterward traveled the voyage of discovery west and journey east, worked in Paris with Les Freres, before he returned to teaching work in San Diego, Texas, NY Military Academy, the Catskills, Mid-Hudson prisons, and 25 years work near Caribou and Calais, Maine. Released into the green pastures of teacher retirement, he writes of his Sixties generation, who loved life, lingered long at the fair, and regret at leisure their prodigal time.
When the Sky Fell
by Gary Luhmann
When the Sky Fell
by Gary Luhmann
Published Apr 14, 2021
469 Pages
6 x 9 Black & White Paperback
Genre: FICTION / Literary
Book Details
When the Sky Fell, we met the new millennium.
Call 9/11 the pivot of the 21st Century. Y2K was nothing but a false alarm. The hanging chad 500 votes in Florida which the Supreme Court validated was nothing but a close election. The Millennium began when the Twin Towers came crashing down to dust, when the sky fell on New York City. Bush-Cheney, who didn’t want America to fix the world but stay at home and fix America, took 9/11 to reverse all their plans. Not only do we turn to terror alerts on our own people but to torture in Gitmo, extra-rendition in Egypt, and slimy stuff in Saddam’s prison of Abu Graib.
We don’t have UN support for our Iraq War, whose warning of WMD’s will be a mushroom cloud, but we march in one month on Baghdad only to lose the war over the next five years. The Iraq War stirs up The Rapture and the Left Behind in our Holy Land Crusade. It’s US on steroids. The Iraq War stirs up banking invested in a housing bubble of subprime ninja loans, MBS, tranches, and derivatives which wreck our economy and Europe’s too. When the sky fell and the Twin Towers came crashing down to dust, our reaction to the terror threat ruined our democracy, our US and EU economy, and our moral standing as leader of the free world.
