This weekend marks the end of the country's innocence pre9/11/2001.Remember when you could have ate food on an airline, brought whatever you needed onto an airline,remember the World Trade Center for its' tourist observation desk, never heard the phrase homeland security, and knew of no such alerts as code yellow or orange, just to name a few?
So much as changed.So many lives gone. So many people with lives changed forever.
I remember getting home and meeting my friend and neighbor KJ outside with my Mom and her infant daughter( my Goddaughter,Angela) and, after hugging, we held hands and prayed together. To me, it's incredible all the things that have happened and yet I can recall that day as if it were yesterday. I would always hear about what happened when President Kennedy got shot, but I was 3 1/2 years old back then. Unfortunately, as I got older, you remember Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Three Mile Island, and other events.Yet none really affected the country as 9/11. Still, as a whole, we managed to survive. God is good.
Here's remembering the day and the people and the experience. May eternal rest be granted to those who have lost their lives, healing occur to those who had been affected by the day and may we always be mindful of the home of the free and the land of the brave, and thank God for it and those who are fighting for and guarding our freedoms.
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Actually I mark the end of this country's "innocence", assuming that concept means anything, at around 1846 when this country declared war on Mexico in order to grab Texas and California.
And I thank my 7th grade history teacher, Mr. Walburn, for giving me my first inkling that not everything this country does is moral.
The events of 9/11 were terrible, but the U.S. has done far worse and continues to bully others.
Sorry, Marian, I think you were expecting a different response from me.
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