Saturday, September 11, 2004
9/11 - Three Years Later
Has it really been three years? That seems like such a long time ago and yet… It’s like it just happened. I think that is the most important thing. We must never forget!
There are those out there that scoff and say too much energy and time is spent talking about the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. I can only tell you this. We must learn to accept and move on but not ignore our history. If we do we are bound to repeat the mistakes which allowed the events to unfold. What happened was not just a failure of government or intelligence groups. It was a failure by civilized society at large. We failed to take threats against our way of live seriously. We became complacent and spent too much time celebrating our own greatness.
I don’t focus on 9/11 because I can’t get over the horrors that I witnessed. I focus on 9/11 because it was a wakeup call! It showed everyone that the world isn’t the wonderful little happy happy joy joy land that we thought it was. There are some seriously deranged and evil individuals out there. While we may try to be accepting of their different views and ways of life they do not. They see us as a threat and they are willing to spill blood to destroy us. We can not sit by idly and hope things get better. We must be active to protect ourselves.
Last year I made a post about where I was and what my first reactions to the events were. For those interested you can read it here:
9/11 reactions - A look back
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AlanBarber
on 09/11/2004 at 02:03 PM
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