Daily Mood Quote
Day 131 – September 11, 2011
One day at a time-this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”
~Unknown
In the movie Remember Me, Tyler (played by Robert Pattinson) said, “If you could hear me, I would say that our finger prints don't fade from the lives we've touched.” As I write this, the names of those lost in the 9/11 attacks are being read on TV and I realize that those lost have touched us all as a nation and to some respect the rest of the world. I understand that terror attacks have touched almost every country, but the one we remember today, 9/11 is one that will long stand as one of our nation's defining moments. The stories of sudden loss and of extreme heroism have echoed long after the lost were placed to rest and the damage repaired. Those who sought to tear the nation down only succeeded in pulling it closer together. The terrorist names and evil will be lost in the fog of time, but the everyday people who became heros of that day, those who put their lives at risk to save others, will live long in our memory. Their fingerprints are now woven into everyone of our lives. They reveal the strongest treads in the fabric of America.
Perhaps that's what those who hate America do not understand, we are a nation of various colors and dreams, workers and thinkers, all woven together over the course of the last 240 years into a strong and resilient fabric. The country isn’t a single ideology, or a nation of affluent fluff balls. We are an ever growing and changing tapestry, that deals with the realities of now and continues onward into the future, together. If you have ever ridden a bus or a subway on a normal day, (as I did on the morning of September 11, 2001) you will see this and feel the unity among the differences; it is palpable. We may agree to disagree, but we are forever united in our larger purpose of freedom and democracy.
The lives of those who were lost on that day will be remembered, celebrated and mourned for years to come. The tapestry, the view, may be forever changed, but we as a nation united will continue to grow.
Abraham Lincoln said in his 1860 Cooper Union Speech, "Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Governement, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
What stories will you share today about 9/11?
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