Reflections on Nine Eleven

Do we need reminded?

Personally, I’m glad the annual 9/11 celebration is over. I don’t know how many more of these regurgitated happenings of that day I can endure. Why must we continually pick at our scabs and put these unpleasant happenings behind us? Let our wounds heal! Surely there must be other more urgent happenings we need to address. There is no doubt, in most people's minds anyway, it was a tragic event, and it scarred, not only our hearts and minds, but, it left a searing mark on our homeland that we patched up and made a memorial of it. A new structure, bigger better, stronger and more beautiful, nears completion next to the old site. One wonders how long it will be before other sicko lunatics will test its ability to ward off attacks. Anything man can build, others will find ways to destroy it.

So, 3,000 people lost their lives that day. Is that really so significant? Especially, when there are so many other deaths each day that, if we put our mind to it, we could reduce them considerately. Instead, we fight a war that, even after we have won, we continue doing what we do best, i.e., killing, maiming and destroying. Our great nation is on the verge of collapse and we continue sending our young men and women to foreign soils to fight someone else's battle.

I believe we have gotten our revenge. Let the world get back to normal, whatever that is.
Think of what we could have accomplished if we had invested some of what we shelled out supporting our war efforts over the last decade in helping, not only our country’s starving people, but the world’s starving masses, especially the children.

Over 46 thousand people are killed in car crashes each year in the U.S. alone: 443, thousand Americans die prematurely each year from smoking or being exposed to the smoke of other’s. We are improving, but, we have a long way to go. Well over a million Iraqis have been killed since 9/11, most of them civilians: 8,800 Americans have been killed which includes the 3,000 killed in the 9/11 incident: over 42.5 thousand of our young men and women have been wounded, not to mention the ones who came home with less of a mind than they left with.

Haven’t we all suffered enough yet? Do we have to be so blatantly reminded each year with videos repeatedly popping up on the boob tube? Interviews, old and updated, and new ones of children who were mere babies back then? I know more about their lives than I do about my own children's. How many times must one view those airplanes crashing and the buildings collapsing? One must turn it off or take a long walk to get away from it.

The two evil individuals responsible for this whole mess have been caught and put to death. I believe our elite Seals could have done this long ago and saved us lots of grief and money. Let’s put this puppy to bed and make ready for another day. Rest assured it will come. It seems humanity cannot function in peace for too long. If there is a god out there, in my view, it surely does not have our best interest in mind.

Will someone please wake me when it’s over? I think next year at this time I’m going to go camping out in the wilderness for a couple weeks, and hope there are no clowns round operating their portable TVs.