Funny how the terror alert levels haven't gone up since Bush left office. Not that anyone paid any attention to them while he was there. Right after September 11th everyone was a bit on edge most of the time anyway. Orange alert or not. Now I think we have settled into a routine again. Too occupied with the affects of a bad economy and our own personal troubles-- not to mention the death of Michael Jackson and the breakup of Jon and Kate. Whew. So much to handle.
My point in all this is, yeah, we remember what happened on September 11th, but we have moved on. The families who had personal connections to the deaths that day will always have it rough, but the rest of us? It's almost lip service now that eight years has passed. The urgency of putting up memorials and remembering....now has become not all that urgent. Squabbles over how much to spend and what to build became eight years of nothing significant done.
And what's to say about the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis who are dead now because of the actions this country took in the aftermath of the plane crashes? Let's remember their families, too. And hope that in the coming years keeping the peace will prevail over going to war.
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