Some of our "representatives" think that some people did some things. Being nice and preaching love doesn't work with religious fanatics. Never heard of a dead fanatic causing trouble.

I am very well aware that a lot of people lost their lives on 9/11 - some directly and others indirectly and possibly at a later time and all connected to the tragedy of 9/11. My heart is with you and I bleed for you because of this. Still, I'm tired of a yearly "we will never forget" that tries to build us into a frenzy for some reason. 9/11 is molded into some patriotic mold that cannot be right for everyone.

I do not want to remember the death of past wives every year as their death day comes up. I'm also not wanting to remember the murder of my grandson on a yearly basis. Of course, you will never forget. Pain is not fun. It's just that I refuse to be browbeat with events as others want to turn them into a forever monument.

I live with 9/11 every day, days when I have trouble breathing, days when another friend is gone! On the morning of 9/12 I went to work with 14 other men, there are only two of us left. We as a nation are up in arms about Russian messing with our election and we've been doing that to South America and the rest of the world for decades! We only seem to look inward for a short while and then forget what happened and why!

Can you imagine if all these mass shootings of late were committed by Middle Eastern people? We’re doing just fine terrorizing ourselves.

And it seems many Christians would demonize the Muslim religion as poisonous and are blind the the poison of their own. Thank you for the post. Very thoughtful

Unfortunately, everyone has their own lessons of history. Even professional historians aren't unified in their interpretation of historical events.

Jefferson never used the word "creator" [candst.tripod.com]