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2004-09-25

My dad came into my room to wake me up, told me to come out to the television and see what was happening. I woke up to a tower of the World Trade Centers on fire, with unsure reports of what was happening. Lying down on the couch, I immediately sat straight up and watched as another plane hit the other tower of the World Trade Centers. I spent the rest of the day glued to the television, as more terror unfolded, and speculations went flying. I thought for sure this was going to be the end of the world as we know it, and the start of a war that I wasn't sure how to describe. I finally pulled myself away from my house to sit at a park, on that beautiful Sept. 11th day... and try to regain my thoughts. I had to actually tell myself what I saw wasn't fake, and the worst feeling of hopelessness entered my body. I thought this was the end.. my world, although not affected physically by the events on September 11th, was mentally jarred loose.

It has been 3 years since that has happened, and I am finally coming to grips with all of the thoughts that I have been questioning in my mind about that day.
http://www.kevinfitz.com/_illustration/03/25.html This is an example of how I've finally come to understand that it's not about the terrorists, and it's not about the bad guys, and it's not about greed and wealth and fame and fortune. It's about the innocent people who die every day, and that remembering their spirits and the lives they led before there death are more meaningful than how they died.

Remember what you want to remember. All I ask is that you remember at least one person lost that day. That is one family, one world, one universe that has been shattered, and face with the confusion of not knowing exactly how their love one passed on from this life. Remember that one person, and then remember there are 3000, 10.000, 100.000 other innocent lives that have been taken from this earth at the wrong time. Remember that there were people inside those buildings, those planes.... your wives, your husbands, your neighbors, your best friends, your sons and daughters, your grandchildren, your brothers and your sisters... That's what was lost that day. So many people who were just going to work for the day. Ordinary people who went through security at the airport and had no idea what was going to happen to them. Ordinary people who fought hijackers and saved so many other lives.

For every day a life is lost... remember it.

I don't hang the flag because I'm ashamed at how America has used it. After September 11th, it wasn't a time to raise our flags and say screw you to the terrorists, we are still united.. and slobber "God Bless America" across the entire country. God has nothing to do with this.. we don't have some superior force only looking after the US

We've made a mockery out of our flag by just flying it in our car windows and work windows for probably less than 4 months after 9-11.

Funny how patriotism wears off after time. Everyone's taken down their flags, everyone's taken down their United In Pride feeling, and what's left is rude drivers with "God Bless America", "Power of Pride" bumber stickers giving you the finger as they pass you.

I'm proud of this country in the fact that yes we do have constitutional rights, one of which is freedom of speech. I love this country. But I sure as heck don't need to wave a flag to pride myself of it. Just like America to show materialist value of pride.. through our flag. The pride is inside, and the way to show it is by being a true American and helping out your fellow man. It's not judging people, it's not questioning if gays should marry, it's not questioning if we should spend 80 billion dollars in Iraq. It's pride in the fact that we stand as one united world. It's the feeling that everyone is our neighbor. It's the feeling of questioning your government when you're unsure of what's going on. Can I fly a flag when we have a war that is killing innocent people? yes.. but only because I support those men and women who were called over there, and who are dying over there. For their freedom, and their chance to come home.. I'll fly that flag. But I won't fly my flag for the corporations and government that runs this country, and is ruining foreign communications.

I have too much love for this country to sit back and be ok with the way this United States of America is being manhandled.


Do you see how September 11th has changed my life? Cynicism and skepticism are something I've learned to deal with because of that day. And I only write with such deep passion about this because people have forgotten. The world has forgotten that this isn't about a war, this isn't about the economy, this isn't about blaming Sept. 11th for every bad event that's happened since then... This is about the 3,000+ people that were murdered that day. May their souls rest in an easier place than this one.

And please, turn of your News Channels just for two seconds...... please?