It's hard to believe that we're nearing a quarter century since this tragedy...
For this year's memorial, a bit less poetry, a bit more direction....
Continuing to look with hope to a better future twenty two years later....
Finally after so many years of doubt, a glimmer of hope that we as a people can unite again....
It's been twenty years and it seems the best we can do is say, "Never Forget." We can do better....
Nineteen years and we're tearing ourselves further and further apart. I'm tired. I want to go back....
Eighteen years later and I still don't know what to do or think or feel or say. Is hope all that's left?...
And here I am again. Finding myself wondering what happened to my America. Where did love and compassion go? Will we find it again?...
Sixteen years and it's becoming clear that America is finally forgetting what it is we keep being told to never forget....
It's been 15 years. What have we become? What will we become? Is all hope for a better America lost? It sure seems that way to me....
I struggle every year to find the good, the happy, the sanity. It should get easier. It does not. ...
Sadly, the anger, bigotry and hatred that churned in 2001 still churn today. In many ways they churn harder, hotter and more fierce....
So it's the anniversary of 9/11 and we're on the verge of yet another war. Have we learned nothing in these twelve years?...
Let go of fear and hatred. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Live your life as if you have no enemies. Let kindness take the place of meanness....
I'm tired. After ten long years, I'm tired of all the fighting. It is time to forget the politics of 9/11 and start helping those in need....
I'm ashamed of my fellow Americans who've turned this day of horrible loss into a polarizing weapon for hatred, bigotry, and politics....
What has happened to us? In the days that followed 9/11 we drew together. To hell with color and creed, race and class. Our mission was to mend. But now......
When normalcy obscures even the deepest emotion. I heard myself ask in my head, "Why are those flags at half mast?" In an instant, my heart dropped....
