Remembering 9/11- 14 years later

It's so hard to believe that the attacks on America at the World Trade Center in New York City happened 14 years ago.

Our everyday lives changed in a blink of an eye. Sometimes I sit and think about how things were on September 10th and before. Things didn't seem so complicated. The world wasn't that scary to us. It just wasn't.

Sure bad things happened. There were domestic attacks on our homeland, but we just chalked that up to a "loose-cannon", or someone went "crazy".

And the attacks that happened overseas where an embassy was bombed, or the USS Cole was targeted was something that just kind of happened from time to time. We always felt "protected" by the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. We felt we were far way from the "ugly" in the rest of the world

Everything changed on 9/11 and It really hit home that globally people wanted the United States of America destroyed, and we weren't as "protected" as we thought.

This morning I was watching television and the networks cut away to broadcast the reading of the names of the people who lost their lives on September 11th.

It really became emotional for me when a 16 year old girl was reading the names of the deceased and the last name she read was her father's name who lost his life. She was only 2 when he died, and all she has of him now is a photo. Just a photo, and stories she heard from family members. She probably has no memories of being held by him. Kisses from him. I just shook my head and felt so much compassion for her just like i do for all the victims.

Then there was the mom, who when she read her husband's name, mentioned how proud he would be that one son graduated from Syracuse University (the father's Alma mater), and her younger son who is just starting his freshman year there as well.

I honestly don't know what the exact purpose of me writing this blog is today, but I felt I just had to say something. Write something down. I don't have anything profound to say. I don't have anything brilliant to say to wrap this up all nicely.

I guess I'm just kind of sad. I'm angry and I'm pissed off for what this world has come to. It's even more unstable and scarier than it has ever been. I wish September 11th never happened! I wish there wasn't so much hate in this world.

And honestly, I hate that this country can't get our shit together so we stay safe from attacks like the ones on 9/11, and that it never happens again.

I'm sick of all the fighting. Democrats vs Republicans. All the arguing in Washington on what to do with Iraq, Syria, etc. I just can't take it anymore. Do we have a say in anything anymore??? Iran wants us destroyed. They want Israel destroyed, yet sanctions are going to be lifted against them. Is this right??? W.T.F is going on anymore?

Is it really too much to ask for us to figure this stuff out TOGETHER?

I certainly don't have an answer for any of this, but there has to be a better way. There just has to.

I wish the words Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS, radical extremists,and Homeland Security didn't exist.

I guess I just wish we can go back to how things were on September 10th 2001.

My heart goes out to all the people and families who lost a loved one on 9/11

As always......*Never Forget*