9.15.2011

9.11


Happy Thursday, Friends.

It’s been a long week. This college thing has proven to be quite the time leach and most of my time has been donated to its cause. No worries though, Thursday is still blog day.

I do, however post many mini blogs on @notsogq. Follow me on twitter for blog updates, fun links and tidbits.

I’ve been thinking a lot about September 11th.

                                                                    Courtesy of TIME Magazine

I still can’t believe it has been ten years since the attack- I can recall it like it happened yesterday.  The wake up. The walk out to an emotional living room with not a clue as to what had happened. It was the first day of school, a Tuesday, and I had to be up a little earlier than usual. I was there for the second plane hitting and I watched the towers fall to the ground. The magnitude of the situation was far beyond what my fourteen year-old mind could grasp.  As the years go by I have more of a respect for what I have actually witnessed and I feel lucky that I didn’t have the ability to understand the magnitude of what I had witnessed at the time.

It’s been ten years and the remnants of ash and rubble can still be found on the streets of New York. The firefighters and the survivors of the accident are still feeling the effects of the attack as cancers destroy their bodies one by one. Apparently the toxic fumes from the fire that were inhaled are so toxic that regardless of if you died in the fire or got out, the disease that it causes stayed with many of the survivors.

Our heroes are dropping like flies.

I know that I voice a lot of rants and my own personal opinions are rampant throughout this blog, but that’s freedom of speech! What better way to voice your concern than to blog or twitter it?

Respect the people that gave their lives(and are still giving them) in an effort to save their fellow citizens.

Respect a situation that changed America and her people for the rest of time.

Respect the war and the people that have given their lives fighting it.

Respect your leaders for doing what they had to regardless of your PEACE wants and desires.  I’m sorry, only when Jesus comes back will there be peace and in the end times there will be wars and rumors of wars. Sorry to break it to you, but this is exactly what’s happening and its going to keep happening.

As long as man is left to the decisions of man, peace will never be acquired.

Stop blaming what happened on your conspiracy theories, and focus on the magnitude of what actually happened.

Time magazine posted one of the coolest memorial websites I’ve ever seen.

View it  here.

Thanks for reading.