We'll never forget. How could you? It's the seminal moment for a nation for the next hundred years. Someone may attack us in some disgraceful cowardly way again but mentally it won't be the same.
For ten years we've held the victorious dead close to our national bosom. We've wanted to let them know in some way we were all still there for them. A documentary on one of the channels took on the awful topic of the WTC jumpers that day. A woman being interviewed said that no matter how horrid the sight, how distressing the situation she said she and others couldn't look away. The interviewer asked her why. She said despite being heartsick looking on they felt they couldn't turn their backs on their plight. As long as the jumpers were suffering the bystanders were there for them, never turning their backs, never running but showing support. That's what we have done as a nation and world community for a decade. Ten years on now it is time to take our look at this day in a forward reaching manner. A day of service as President Obama has unofficially made the day's calling is perfect. Widowers and widows of that day have remarried and started new American families. The stunningly beautiful monuments are built or are close to being finished. We have to now take that difficult step towards turning mourning to positive actions.
News helicopters are droning loudly all day long through the open window covering what happened ten years ago. Yet one step onto the terrace shows the new One World Trade growing every day.Tomorrow those helicopters will be gone but One World Trade will continue to rise.
By the time the Tribute in Light fades into the dawn for the last time tomorrow morning make sure to take hold of that dawn. Let it pull us forward into the next hundred years.
United.
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