[jocon307]

We can never forget that day. We will never stop thinking about it, I think, because one's mind can never get to a point of full comprehension of what happened. Even to this moment it is still hard to believe the Trade Center Towers actually collapsed. Someone posted this link on another thread I was on today, and I'm passing it on to you. It is immensely powerful and immensely sad and I think it captures the exact emotions of that day and the few days after with an exactitude that only true inspiration can achieve. I cried when I watched it then, and I cried when I watched it today. Evidently it is available on a few places on the web, but I'm posting this link, because if it doesn't work it is easy to go to gunstuff.com and find it on the homepage right near the top, that wasn't true of another place it is posted.

www.gunstuff.com/america-attacked.html

[tbpiper]

On the 9th of September, by oldest son was married in Minneapolis. We flew home to Florida on the morning of the 10th. My son and his new wife were to fly to San Francisco on the morning of the 11th at the time of the attacks. We were concerned until he finally called, stuck at the airport. We have found that in our circle of friends and aquaintances, that we are one or two people away from someone who died in the attacks. My youngest son was on a delayed entry to the Army at the time and has since go on and is presently deployed in Mosul, Iraq. He was part of the unit that killed the Hussein brothers.

Even if I wanted to, I couldn't forget September 11. We as a family and we as a nation are still involved in it. Victory is an inadequate salve, but it is the only one we have. Damn the islamist and damn those who support them, here and abroad.