11 September 2010
9th anniversary of 9/11
This is the ninth year we have had to remember the awful day that literally changed all of our lives. It ripped my life apart and threw it in the ash can even though I didn't know it at the time. In addition to our whole way of life being stolen from us by increased security and vague threats, my marriage has been stolen and my son's college experience forever scarred by the loss of friends. I don't just blame the terrorists who planned and flew those planes that day. I blame the way our namby pamby country reacted and showed their yellow undies to the world and continue to do so to this day. They think that by being the biggest bully on the earth, that they will scare the terrorists into staying away from the U.S. No attempt has been made to understand or carry on. We have just put our heads down and charged forth like an angry bull stung by a wasp on the snout. We have punished ourselves far more than any terrorists ever could have. What a sad, sad, commentary on all the loss of life and sacrifice.
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What is tragic is that the very large majority of Muslims that absolutely DID NOT condone the actions of the terrorists of 9/11 are mourning as well, and so many Americans have placed a negative stigma of Islam because a handful of crazy people did a crazy thing. I remember the stigma of growing up with Ukrainian immigrant parents, and people calling our family Communist because it was part of the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. I felt the discrimination to the core. And yet, my father doesn't show disdain for the "profiling" he went through. At 86, he looks back and says that 80% of the people did what they could to help him acclimate to the United States. He chose to ignore the other 20% and blamed it on stupidity.
ReplyDeleteIf so many in this country are bound to show the "family values Christianity", then the first thing we need to do is reach our hands to the outcasts, to show them that no matter whom they worship, be it Allah, Y-hw-h or God, it's our responsibility to act according to Jesus' ways. Amen to your posting!