Posted by Penny on September 11, 2003, at 8:47:15
I don't know about everyone else, but the pain of September 11, 2001 is still fresh in my heart. It's so hard for me to believe that it's been 2 years. I didn't know anyone who was killed on any of the four planes, in the twin towers or at the Pentagon, but the memory of that day seems lodged in my soul. I find myself still experiencing a great deal of anger surrounding Sept. 11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and I just can't understand why (WHY???) the people on this planet seem to have such a hard time peacefully cohabitating.
I suppose this is all compacted by the fact that on Nov. 7 it will be the two-year anniversary of my grandfather's death (for those of you who don't know, my grandfather committed suicide). My grandmother said that his mood seriously declined following the Sept. 11 attacks, and considering that he was a veteran of WWII and Korea and a retired army sergeant, I can see why.
2001 was a bad bad year. We lost two of my grandmother's brothers and my grandfather. And the world lost more than 3,000 of its brethren in a horrific tragedy.
I won't even go too much into the aftermath of Sept. 11, because it's just too painful for me right now. I live in North Carolina and many many of our troops are currently in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting the 'war on terror,' a war I have mixed feelings about. I just hate that people are continuing to die because of hatred. Not that it hasn't happened for all of history. But because it seems that important lessons are not being learned.
P
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