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Man Remembers 9-11 Twice Daily
Ian
Murphy
 With
the approach of the 9-11 four year anniversary many Americans
will be taking time to honor the fallen, but for one local
man the memory of the horrible events of September 11th, 2001are
never far from his mind.
On
most days, once in the A.M. and again in the P.M., Podiatrist
Stephen Kilanowski finds himself staring somberly at the clock
in solemn remembrance of that fateful day.
“If
I happen to be around a clock” says Kilanowski, a Cheektowoga
native “and I’m looking at it, then I usually
remember that day.” “Except on the weekends”
adds Kilanowski “because I’m either sleeping in
or out to dinner or a movie or something. Oh and not on Wednesdays
either, in the morning I have the chiropractors and at night
I get the kids so I usually don’t notice.” When
he does notice say friends he takes “a second or so
to think, wow that really sucked!”
“Most
of us have totally forgotten that there was a 9-11 and that
it was significant in any way” says longtime friend
and coworker Stan Cooke “but Stephen’s unbridled
patriotism and loose mental association between times and
dates has been a beacon for us all.” “Now most
of us in the office find ourselves milling around the coffee
machine in the morning at that time” says Cooke “and
we think, something happened on 9-11and we should remember
it, and we do.”
While
Kilanowski’s “unbridled patriotism” has
garnered respect from some, it has also gained the doctor
several detractors, both professionally and in his personal
life.
“This
man has got to stop remembering so much” insists Claire
Redmond, former patient and longtime liberal acquaintance
“if he doesn’t, somebody is going to get seriously
injured.” Others claim Kilanowski has already “gone
too far” and remembered “too much.”
“I
was there to get my bunions scrapped and all of a sudden he
just zones out” says ex-patient Kris Tyler “and
I was all like hello-hello? And finally after like a minute
of sobbing he just looked at me with this craven look in his
eyes. I asked him if he was ok and he just started going crazy,
flipping over tables and chairs, ripping the couch cushions
apart with his teeth and accusing me of hiding a dirty bomb
and harboring terrorists. I tried to explain to him that my
purse wasn’t big enough to harbor terrorist and he totally
freaked out and came at me with a scalpel screaming ‘support
the troops!’”
“Kris
Tyler has been at this game for a long time now” says
Cooke “she has aligned herself with the likes of moveon.org
and Michael Moore; all of the other doctors in the office
refuse to treat her anymore. It’s a shame; she has such
nice parents.”
Tyler
openly admits to both visiting the moveon.org website and
seeing the film Fahrenheit 9/11 but denies accusations that
she is a raging liberal whiner who would rather see the terrorists
win than see George W. Bush succeed in spreading freedom to
the Middle East.
As
for Kilanowski, he is undeterred in what he calls his “never
ending quest to honor the memory of those innocent victims,
by any means necessary.” “Yeah I’m going
to remember those helpless victims twice a day if I’m
near a digital clock except when I’m at the chiropractors
or sleeping or something else and people are either going
to be with me or against me.”
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