Thursday; September 11
When I was a child, I would read about the attack on Pearl Harbor and the ensuing World War and think about how far away and distant that seemed to be. That date that lives in infamy and those events that followed shaped my growing up years and influenced my worldview. Even without a memory of it, December 7, 1941, changed my life. As I look at today’s date, my thoughts immediately go back to where I was on September 11, 2001. It still seems like yesterday that I was shocked by what was happening. That day has influenced not only my life but our national and international relations for the last two decades. The other day as I got to thinking about it, I realized that a growing number of our young people don’t remember that day. Many of the people in our armed forces and emergency services were not alive when the towers and the planes came down and, even those who were, may be too young to remember the impa...