It has been 10 years since that awe filled day of death and destruction! Since that day, the peace of the world has been shattered by the awful events of 9/11/01.
The suspicion, hate and anger that has generated from the very core of the American people intensifies, and we find it very hard to forget, let alone forgive.
We hear the word: “Muslim” and we finish it with “Extremist”. We live in suspicion and fear of any middle easterner who crosses our path. Every time a soldier, or marine, or any serviceman or woman who dies in Afghanistan or Iraq is reported, we seek more revenge, we wish that 100 x 100 of them die. We have lost respect for all the population, and so the hope for peace and tranquility in this world dies a little more each day. We wish we could just drop a bomb that will eradicate them all, and wait for the next war, the next terrorist, maybe the next Hitler to come on stage.
Some Americans think that we got what we deserve, that it is our fault the events of 9/11 occurred. Some feel we went into Iraq for the oil, and maybe we did, and maybe we didn’t. I think it is their fault too, because they don’t have answers, they don’t offer hope, they have no clues either. They can offer divisive theories without proof, supposition is easy. We are all at fault; we are all uncompromising, all forgetful that we are brothers and sisters on this planet that we defile with our hatred and anger.
In the Middle East, there are children who will give to the world tomorrow, and children who will die today! None of us in this world have the ability to stop any of it from happening. Good and evil, it is like salt and pepper.
America is not the same as it once was; the crippling effects of 9/11 are permanently embedded in our finances, our economy globally, and in our psyche forever, our children and their children will live with it forever, until all the generations to come learn to bury that past.
So what do we have to show as a legacy to future generations? Will it be other wars, petty racist misguided misconceptions of people? Will we be proud of ourselves? Will we admit to helping in a way to continue the slaughter of innocents?
“WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH.”
When will we all learn? When will we understand that if we all eat, none of us starve, if we have peace, we can save our children and our selves. When we compromise and seek to understand others, we will all benefit because we will have enhanced the chances of some child in the darkest region of Africa, Asia or South America attain freedom from hunger and want, and to create the medicine, the art and literature, to make us all universally happy. What is so wrong with all of us being happy?
God is supposed to be all knowing, all wise, with THE plan that HE is using for all of us. Yet he made us all different, some with color, some with religion, leaving it all open for conflict. We wonder why. I think maybe we can blame God for creating us, but we can’t blame him for what we do. If we do that, then what is the reason for our existence and free will?
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