| i understand that people may have mis understood exactly what it was that i meant with my last entry. I know that i wasn't clear with my wording, and i was very short. true as it is that i am flustered with the fact that 5 years later we have little to show for the loss of the twin towers than a hole in the city with a number of memorials, and it makes me upset not so much because of what has been done, but because of what hasn't, and also because of what has been forgotten. I know that i live in Michigan, and i know little of life in new york, or exactly what is going on, and that i can only know what informaiton is fed to me, and i really wish that i had more. but what i do know is that buildings are being proposed to be built, and nothing has been done. allow me to expand upon my reason for my distraught attitude.... i don't want to see so much the world's largets building looming over the New York skyline. I don't want to see it painted red white and blue....i really wouldn't care so much as to even see a building there. I do want to see people remembering what it means to us as a nation to be unified, or for what it has meant to us for what we have been through. following 9/11, our nation was hurt, but it was strong. we were more unified than ever. chearing on fire fighters and rescue workers and clean up crews as they made their way to the site of the tragedy. We flew our flags and sang the songs. I was nicer to people and went out of my way to help someone, without really thinking of what it could be that i would get out of it. For weeks, and even months, our nation was strong because of an attack that happened from a unlikely group in one of the most populated areas of our nation. 5 years later...we sing a different song. Our flags now sit in our garages, or are flown on memorial day or the 4th. I'm sinical towards people while i drive, look down at others, and post things like i have in the past on this site. I know that we can't spend our time dwelling on the past, but can't we spend our time becoming better people because of the events that have been given to us? A horrific event that effected all of us is now politcal ammunition and is slowly causing our nation to divide. Democrats blame republicans, republicans blame democrats, and a nation that is built on it's people now has close to the lowest percentage of people who support our elect president and his cabinet. People abroad are beginning to create consipracy theories saying that the US was behind the attacks and used it as propoganda to go to war. The idea of terrorism is to enstill fear in the lives of those who it effects, and to disrupt the natural way of life. At this point, i say that they have the upper hand on us. I wont forget the sacrifices that were made, and the people that have died. Whether that be during 9/11, or at Pearl Harbor, WWI or II, Vietman, and the list goes on. God speed. |
