[Reaper]

I remember that day well. I was driving when I first heard that there had been a plane crash in New York. There weren't a lot of details at first but when word came of a second plane hitting I knew it had to be some sort of attack. I didn't get hysterical but I knew that some people were going to do just that. Watching the news all day gave me the realization that the United States finally experienced what many countries had gone through before. War and terrorism on their own soil. With 136 years past since the end of the U.S. civil war the country was so far removed from it that when you combined it with their foreign policies that it was easy to see how cocooned that the United States (and Canada to some degree) had become.

I had written a paper in University on the United States and its foreign policies where I basically stated that when an attack on American soil finally occured that there would be a dramatic shift where that country would either start to work with the rest of the world or they would ramp up their own efforts towards the furtherance of their agenda. Unfortunately, I was right and the powers that be in the United States chose the later.

It saddens me that people continue to bang the drum of war and evoke the memory of 9/11 in their quests towards more power, more political gain, etc. To me, that is the most sickening part of 9/11 and those that do it are essentially pissing on the graves of those who died that day.

My heart continues to go out to the victims of 9/11 and their families.