September 11, 2008

• 9-11, Seven Years Later

  It's been seven years since our country was attacked, eight years since I hung up my uniform for the last time, and five years since I lost a friend to the war. Much has happened since that day for me personally.

  
  

  I still reflect and wonder how things would be different, if I did not have to hang up my uniform and box away that part of my life. As I become older I reflect less on that. However, I reflect more on what it is that we are to be remembering. Are we to remember the lives lost that day? The magnitude of the tragedy? Or something far deeper? I say that it is something far deeper.

  
  

  As time passes a new generation will rise; a generation that will not remember with vividness the towers coming down and the dark smoke against the blue sky. Sure they will see the old news footage, but will they have a sense of the profound meaning of it all? Maybe, maybe not; much of it depends on how we tell the story. Are we going to shelter the younger generation and sugar coat it, by glossing over it? They need to see and learn about the harsh reality of it all. It’s going to reopen a lot wounds for many people, but that is what is necessary for the children of today to grow a deeper understanding of what is happening today. They need to know what the fight is about today. We need to make the enemy clear for them.

  
  

  What attacked us that day was not a nation, but an ideology; an ideology that was perpetrated by false teachings and originated by a false prophet. That’s right, false teachings and false prophet. This is religious war weather we like to call it that or not. Religious wars have been happening for centuries and even in this modern day. However, we, as a nation, were insulated from this with our ideals of a society with a freedom of religion. Well, unfortunately the world is imperfect.

  
  

  We were attacked not because of our freedoms. We were attacked for our religion (or lack thereof for some). There is no amount of weaponry or force that can end this kind of war. This is a war that is not fought in the desert or the mountains. It is a war fought in the hearts and souls of the lost. This will be a war that will see no end until the end times. We have a choice to make. Take on the urgency of the times and spread the Good News, or sit idly by.

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