Today marks the 7th Anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash landing in the Pennsylvania field.  To this day I feel a sense of sadness and then anger and indignation. Sadness for the lives that have been lost, anger at the attacks themselves and those who condoned, supported, planned and knew about them and yet did nothing to stop them, and indignation at the apathy that has seemingly come over my country and those who would tell me to either forget what happened, that the attacks were deserved, or that we should move on.  The quote that comes to mind is “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”  While I don’t wish to relive that tragedy daily, I am reminded of it often in the ways my country has changed since that time – and a lot of those changes aren’t for the better, and with a highly-charged and very political (in every sense) election coming, I see the division and nastiness becoming even more prevalent.  It might do my Nation well to remember the candidates are just people, we are voting for our future…may we ALWAYS stand United for division hurts us all.

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