Seventeen years. Painful memories embedded in this passage of time still cut so deeply in the minds and hearts of everyone. Thousands of innocent lives disappeared in screaming clouds of choking dust as we watched so helplessly, and cried, as hatred and pure evil worked in concert to wreak havoc in our country.
Seventeen years. Back to that unfathomable time which united people as the realization set in that life, as we had come to know it, would never again be the same.
Bands of intense emotions, saddled with fear, created a common ground of brotherhood and caring. At least for most of these past years, at least until the tragic anniversary each September 11th. Here, on this one day, the political debates and constant combative undercurrent takes a slight rest as we quietly memorialize all who perished at the hands of radical extremism.
Once again, as memorials are held throughout the United States, bells will toll at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m. and 10:03 a.m., times of the various attacks which took place on 9/11/01. Names will be read and we again will pause to remember.
But, we will never, ever, forget!
“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
