9/11

Today is the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the WTC in NYC and the Pentagon in DC. Eight years ago, my then boyfriend came home early from work after officials closed all government offices. Eight years later, I am married to that boyfriend and taking our triplet daughters to the zoo to see Barney. The only grim reminder of that horrific day are the flags flying at half-mast.

After visiting the zoo, my folks, the girls, and I ate at Mecklenberg Gardens, the same restaurant where their father and I had chosen to go eight years ago to try to forget the day's events. The visiting German band was very kind and very respectful to the patrons of the restaurant that evening. Interestingly 56 years prior, we were at war with the German band members' ancestors.

Less than a decade after the 9/11 attacks. we are still waging wars in the Middle East and have not yet caught the culprits who helped plan and underwrite the cost of the 9/11 attacks. Warfare is much easier with an identifiable enemy.

So on this 9/11, let us remember the victims of these attacks and pray for those brave men and women who are fighting in foreign lands to ensure that future attacks on our homeland never happen again.