Sept. 11 – 10 Years Later

So I guess tomorrow marks 10 years since the day that most Americans will never forget. For me, it was even stranger because I didn’t live here yet. We were due to move over here that November (which we did) so we were in the process of selling the house, everything in it and all that good stuff when September came around.

I still remember driving to the dentist that morning from work, and hearing on the radio that someone had flown a plane into a building in New York. It sounded almost surreal, and at that point they still weren’t sure if it was indeed just a freak accident. As the day unfolded it became clear that it wasn’t but before I bore you to tears with my ramblings, the point of this little recap is to take you to the one thing that stands out in my my mind more than anything else… One word that sums it up, and it’s not death. Not murder. Not even revenge. It’s simply this… Evil.

Now evil is a funny thing because we personify it on the few, forgetting that actually, we are all capable of it to some degree, and to a larger degree, there are still many people alive today that are capable of it to a massive degree.

I know the people who hijacked those planes were very evil people. I know they did horrendous things that to many, even today are still seen as unforgivable. But you know what, so do countless others each and every day and we overlook it, turn the other way to it, and generally do our best not to let it interfere with our everyday lives.

I read headlines of adoptive mothers who then torture and abuse the child they’re given, and STILL HAVE because CPS couldn’t act on anything to this point. Where’s the person who could have stopped it?

I read headlines of men who abuse young girls HUNDREDS of times over and amazingly, only just got found out. Where’s the person who could have stopped it?

I read headlines of young boys with machine guns trying to earn enough money to buy food, of young girls selling themselves so that they aren’t murdered by the traffickers who kidnapped them. The list goes on, and so does the evil that feeds on it but again I ask myself, where’s the people that could stop this?

Somewhere in all this mess, we have to stop and remember that tomorrow, we aren’t just remembering an atrocity that happend 10 years ago, and took thousands of innocent lives in the process. We’re also remembering that Evil still exists, and is still alive in the world we live in today, living through other people who are still promoting their evil ways and in actuality, killing more people per day, than those 2 planes ever did.

Unfortunately, evil didn’t die with those hijackers on 9/11, which is why remembering the past is oh so important. I just think changing the future is even more so.

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