Ten Years

One bright summer morning in September, the sky was clear and blue, New York was green and promising and the New Yorkers were excited that Fall was almost here....and then within minutes, the illusion Americans' had been carrying since the Forefathers was shattered. They were not indistructable, just because they were in America, that did not automatically make them safe....the rose colored glasses shattered and splintered in a million directions along with the Twin Towers, a wing of the Pentagon and four planes.

The automatic response many of us have had since the playground was fight back, lets get 'em.....and Get 'Em they did....Got the Iraqui's, Got the Afghans, Got the Pakistanis....but at some stage the flailing has to stop, we have to step back and really ask who is the enemy. How many innocents have been collateral damage, how many people in the Middle East lost their jobs, homes, education, future....how many families have lost a loved one because they bravely enlisted as a soldier, how many more people are we going to make suffer just to make outselves feel better.

Thousands of lives are gone, cruelly stripped from their families, their lives, their futures.......WHEN will the Phoenix rise from the ashes and make some good out of this violent situation.

Build schools in the names of the dead, provide scholarships in the names of the dead, build power supplies in the names of the dead....let their names provide something positive for the future........ENOUGH, ENOUGH...let's lead by example.......let there be Peace.