September 11th

Today everyone asks, "Where were you when it happened?"... Driving to work, taking the kids to school, working out, at the dentist's office, at the grocery store... Kind of like when Bobby Kennedy died, when the space shuttle crashed, when the Alfred P. Murrah Building was bombed in Oklahoma City, or even when Hurricane Katrina fell on the lowlands of the Gulf Coast. All moments that make us take pause; and reflect on our past, the present and our future as a free people and as fragile human beings.

I don't want to understand the reason why there are people out there who somehow find honor in killing innocent people. Because to try to understand the unthinkable means that it may have some morsel of integrity. In my world, this vile act has no integrity. Yes, it exists, but understanding will not make it go away. Do I sound intolerant? Do I sound like a zealot? No, I think I sound like a reasonable person whose only fear (today) is of the chaos that seeps into our society to punish us for our freedoms.

To forget this day would only bring us closer to reliving it again. Today and everyday we should all be thankful for our lives, our family, our freedoms and our country.