9/11 - This Day Will Never Not Be Sad

Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:00

It just doesn't matter how many years pass by. September 11th will forever be a very sad and mournful day for me.

In a Post on WAH today, I wrote:

Being from NJ, I attended meetings in Tower 2, 86th floor. I was the Sales and Marketing Manager for a large maintenance company and we did work for the Port Authority, whose corporate offices were on the 86th floor of Tower 2.The train I would take into the city drops you off under the towers.My brother, a NJ cop, fireman AND emergency management officer spent months "picking up fingers and toes." He's lost I believe 20% of his lung capacity from working at ground zero.I knew many other cops, fireman and EMS who volunteers to work those many months following the attack doing the same thing.This is hard for everyone, but it was my backyard.

But that doesn't do the feeling in my soul justice. I come to the table not being one for violence. It has nothing to do with being a passivist, it has more to do with being a human being and seeing, hearing and feeling other people's anguish is not something I care to bear, even in the movies. So this day hits me especially hard. Those images were real, those screams were true, the deaths were deaths. I taught my son about 9/11 (he was only 4 when it happened) because I want him to understand what hatred does to people, to nations, to the world.

Hatred, like love, is one of those emotions that can alter the course of the planet. I truly believe we can change the world if we change how we think, how we behave, how we treat other human beings. I was not a Christian when the towers fell. I screamed to God that day, "HOW COULD YOU?" Now I realize, he didn't - we did.

So, as we all go throughout our day, I'd ask everyone to be just a little nicer to people you meet out and about. Don't do it because it's 9/11, do it because we're all God's people and the greatest two commandments are to love your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself. If we do these two things, truly, we can all change the world.

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