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2002-09-11

I think that this being the most documented event in the history of the world that it needs to be preserved and taught to classrooms around the world... This in a sense is history whether we like it or not...

We were all a part of this 'historic' event... and in as many people who have witnessed it or have seen pictures and heard stories of it... we are all a part of the story... unwilling participants in an event never seen before...

I remember that day as do we all... I made the mistake or perhaps exposed myself to some twenty one or so hours of non stop footage of the events as they unfolded on the television... I probably changed channels a thousand times or more that day...

Never has anything so public and so great in size ever touched the depths of my soul like that day... I have never shed so many tears and felt the pain that so many others were sharing with me from that day forward...

I think that watching the events of that day on September 11th of this year would be just a bit too much for me to handle...

I'm not trying to forget or to even avoid what happened that day because by all means... my heart, my thoughts, my prayers and my tears will be shared with everyone who passed away and with everyone who survived on that day...

This evening I happened to watch a program on our local public broadcasting system called 'Stranded Yanks' which told the story about how thousands of airline passengers headed to the United States were stranded in Canada when the airspace in the United States was shut down for five days and how the people of Canada reached out to make a good experience of the tragic events of that day...

After seeing that program, it helped to know that although we lost so much on that day that we also gained much more than I have yet to comprehend ... a new definition of humanity, random acts of kindness, strangers becoming friends and friends becoming family...

That was the day that the world stood still... but it was also the day that countless people took action...

We saw the worst of the worst on that day and because of that we saw the evolution of the best of the best...

Random acts of kindness... people helping people... nations helping nations... giving... sharing and caring...

And it all happened from that day...