9-11-01

I will never be the same.

I cannot forget.

I will not forget, no matter how much those who claim to know better say I should contextualize this moment.

But for a month's difference in timing, I might have been one of these people jumping from one horror to another. A final act of defiance against the mass murders whose ideology has grown and festered like a cancer on humankind.

I don't need impersonal, emotionally-driven candlelight vigils completely devoid of substance, or to be anesthetized by any other means. I want to remember in the rubble and in the images of that horrible day, my innocent friends and countrymen who were intentionally and needlessly slaughtered, and that there is a very real threat that is trying to make this happen again.

God, bless those who died, those who survived, their families and ultimately all who live in this country.

Please, never again.