September 11, 2001 - Six Years Later

The shadow of September 11th will forever hang over us. I genuinely feel sorry for those who lost loved ones on that day. I will never pretend to know what those people are going through and how greatly their lives were affected. With no personal connection, I grieve in a different way. For the lost innocense and the feeling of vulnerability. For the younger people who will never know what it was like to travel about the country as easily as we used to, and now must wait through endless lines, and cast their bottles of shampoo into a barrel. And I grieve for our nation, as a whole. How all the good will of that day was squandered, and for how divided the people have become in this country. Perhaps the best way to mark this day is with silence. If we tone down all the rhetoric, shut off the radios and televisions and make an honest effort to just
take stock of what really matters to us and cherish that.... it may help us find common ground.