9-11 And all that jazz.

A couple people have emailed me asking why I didn't put up something recognizing the 10th anniversary of you know what... I have a few different reasons, it was a terrible event that happened by a few morons who happened to get their sh*t together long enough to do more damage than they should have been allowed to do.

By remembering the fallen, I understand that we are helping those families deal with their grief in some sense, maybe even make it seem like they died FOR something.
At the same time I think that by plastering images of falling buildings on every channel ALL day is giving the bottom feeding slugs who were responsible for smashing a couple planes into buildings more fist-pumping ammunition for self congratulations; at worst, it can be veritable call to arms for all those families of people WE killed (justifiably or not) in any of the OTHER wars we have since become involved in.

We (Americans) should have seen it coming.
It was simply a matter of time before one of these fundamentalist groups made something big go boom.

We have never had any attacks on our soil and to think we never would is what some might call arrogance,
others might call it stupidity.

There will ALWAYS be nutjobs out there, no matter how much 'security' 'awareness' or whatever infringement of liberties you might allow, just try to not be around when they DO go off.

In closing, I found this memorial which I have no hope of competing with, so I leave you with...