My wife and I remember 9/11

In the midst of a heated political season here we are again revisiting the most horrific act that has hit our land honoring the dead, honoring the heroes that saved lives or risk their lives and comforting those who lost their loved ones.

Today is an important day. For me and my wife it changed our lives forever not because we lost someone we knew.  We lost souls we are familiar with. Moms, Dads, Brothers Sisters, Uncles, Aunts, Grandparents, wife, husband and sadly children too. Most of us are lucky to have our family intact or if they passed they did so on life's terms and not by such a senseless cowardly act that happened in Americas City, Americas Capital and one of many American heartlands.

We lost some freedom we took for granted. We now have to behave differently because of our enemies. We can not assume that we live "snug as a bug in a rug" as my parents use to say.

I know people who are cynical and boldly state it didn't change their lives and think that we deserved it because of our policies and of course the tired old argument of oil. They say we should take time to listen to them (the terrorist). The terrorists are a mis-understood people they say. So be it.

We can only speak for ourselves and will not try to convince anyone of anything because we all have to come to our own conclusions hopefully in an informed way instead of being led to a cliff like the lemming.

Regardless of what you think of the current administration or how the war on terrorism is being waged we believe this. Our enemy celebrates death and Bin Laden has stated as much. We in America celebrate life. How do you talk to a person with a bomb strapped around their waist, dirty bomb in their brief case or poison to put in our food and water resources?

When will the next act of cowardice happen? Who knows. Will it happen? Of course after we have slipped back into the comfort zone of intellectual blather forwarded by the "smart set". History repeats itself over and over and the rest of the world continues to prove it (Russia). "Our friends" in the world have very limited resolve and in the end we will be alone. It is always up to us isn't it?

So who is the enemy? The enemy is from within and if we choose to forget 9/11 or put it in the category of "come-upins" then we as a country will be subjected once again to the horror our pursuers wish to perpetrate.

God Bless the victims of 9/11 and our troops all over the world protecting all of us.