Look around you. Everything is changing. Images that are permanently engraved in our minds. People around us hugging and crying. I was crying. The unforgettable images of 9-1-1.
On Sept. 11, I couldn’t help but look around me as the events unfolded.
These were the images and words that were going to be carved in history books that my grandchildren will never fully understand.
The same way that I don’t fully understand the events and actions of Pearl Harbor that affected my grandparents.
The sad part is that maybe my grandchildren will understand because they might still be living the nightmares of today.
So what is the answer?
Hate will never fully be abolished. A sad fact, isn’t it.
I don’t expect everyone to have the same beliefs that I do; I just expect people to respect my beliefs the same as I respect theirs.
A lot of people seem to be talking about war, but whom are we going to fight? Who exactly is the enemy?
It could be anyone that you don’t know. So does that make every stranger the bad guy?
Are we just going to bomb cities and kill innocent people until we think that we have all of the evil in this world destroyed?
Then what does that make us?
I don’t think that it makes us any better than the terrorists because of how many innocent lives had to be lost. People that we don’t know and will never get to meet.
I’m not saying that I’m not unmoved by Tuesday’s events or that you shouldn’t be moved by them either. But after everything that the world has been through to try to eliminate racism and gain world peace, starting a new war would be backtracking.
How could this not turn into a war on racism and not be another holocaust.
Do you want to tell your grandchildren that you supported this? Is your picture going to be in the history book burning the flags of other countries?
I didn’t particularly like seeing that image in Jordan on the news.
The hardest lesson to learn is that you cannot fight hate with hate.
I want to encourage everyone to donate blood or give the spare change in your pocket to the American Red Cross.
We don’t need to get into a holy war because we are not the religious police, but fanatics, whether they’re Christian, Buddhist, Muslim or what ever, don’t have the right to make us live in fear.
If they know that they can’t break us, then their efforts will become meaning less and the terrorist’s attempts to destroy America will be futile.
The way we must fight this is to stand together.

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