Always Remember 9/11.

Here is a fitting tribute.

As a personal note, I was fortunate not to lose any loved ones to the 9/11 attacks. It disturbs me for people to say the 9/11 attacks did not occur, Flight 93 landed in Cleveland, the government was behind it, the planes were not commercial they were military, etc. It really demeans the lives lost. Thousands of people that day lost husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, friends, cousins and to disgrace their memories with doctored videos or initial reactions from onlookers is truly disgraceful.

It is no different than the people that say the Holocaust never happened.

Take a moment today to listen to the tribute, it will take you back to that day and it will most likely draw a tear in your in eye. It is painful to relive and some of you I know come here to get away from the world and politics and endulge in some gossip. Listen, I like to do the same thing. But is important to always remember what happended on 9/11. It's been seven years now and the more time passes the more the tendancy is to just go through our day. I wasn't alive for Pearl Harbor and I will be honest, most December 7th's come and go and sometimes it is days later when I remember Pearl Harbor day.

Take the time to teach your children about 9/11. Tell them your memories, your fears that day, where you were, it's the best perspective they will ever have on that day and its importance. It will be more valuable to them than reading about 9/11 in a cold textbook and in politically correct language.

I still remember that day in vivid detail. I was leaving a meeting and in my car when I first heard a plane had struck one of the wtc's. Originally the news was not sure of the size of the plane even and orignally the did not even know why the building had smoke coming from it. While concerned, I dismissed it as an accident. Minutes later, upon hearing a second plane had struck an additional tower, I knew it was terrorism. My one regret that day is not leaving work and going and following the coverage. Work was not important that day or quite honestly the days and weeks following. I remember worrying that night and going to sleep that night with the most uneasiness I have ever felt. Would there be more attacks? I wondered. Certainly, 9/11 is the most fear I have ever felt for our country. I still to do this day believe if the planes had not been grounded there would have been West Coast attacks. As do I believe the government would have shot down Flight 93 had it not been forced down.

In closing, an election is coming up and a lot of us get caught up in being a democrat or a republican or having selfish reasons for favoring one canidate over another, but first and foremost, we are all americans. Remember that. Thats one of my biggest memories from 9/11 is feeling like an american and being proud of my country.