September 11, 2011

Ten years. In some ways it feels like just a few months ago, in others like it was a couple lifetimes. It's hard to remember now our naivete, or perhaps hubris, in thinking we were indestructible before that horrible day. And yet the pain is so fresh in so many ways. 
 

For the last several years I've posted on this date, although I did miss one during the 'sick years', and of course, this wasn't begun until 2006. BuxMont is doing a special memorial service, which is wonderful. I think that's the right thing to do, especially on a tenth anniversary. Our minister asked me to be Worship Associate and I'm giving a five minute 'reflection' and have titled it "The Heroes".

It  is a wonderful thing that at last we are recognizing this day after the death of bin Ladin. While I don't believe in the Biblical hell, it is certainly my wish that wherever or whoever he is now that he is suffering beyond anything we could imagine. It doesn't make it right, it doesn't change history, but it's nice that bastard is no longer among the living. I wish that it hadn't been such a quick death, that he had suffered more.
 

It's sad to me that so many things haven't changed. Thousands more brave Americans are dead, tens of thousands injured with many of them critically and permanently affected. We're still at war. We're still threatened. Al Queda is still in existence. And yet life goes on. We still have our daily joys and sorrows. It's a stark reminder that no matter what happens, no matter what horror occurs, all that you leave behind in this world is the love or hate that you created.
 

Here's to love. Laurie

In Memoriam

To all those lost at WTC & The Pentagon

To the brave passengers and crew of Flight 93

who were the first Americans to fight back against the terrorists

To those who knowingly made the ultimate sacrifice

FDNY, NYPD & PAPD

and to those whose efforts then are leading to their deaths now

WE WILL NEVER FORGET