EDITED - I'm sorry Nick, I didn't realize I was on your thread. I thought I was on the 9/11/11 thread. May Frank Rest in Peace.
I left it here because I didn't want to delete it.
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I can't grieve over this anymore.
It's been ten years. We got Bin Ladin but there are tens of thousands of Bin Ladins if not hundreds of thousands that should be extinct by now.
I know about grief. I had terrible grief when my Father died. That also was ten years ago. Some of us won't even live ten more years from now. It was a long time ago.
I don't grieve over my father anymore. There has been closure on that.
We can't have any closure on 9/11 because they still kill us everyday, little by little. They have killed our spirit to fight. They have kill our privacy. They have stolen our freedoms. They kill our sons and nephews in Iraq and Afghanistan. They plot to kill us every day.
Why?
Because we have not exterminated them like the insects they are.
I'm sorry gentlemen. I understand grief. I also know that ten years is too long to grieve. It's time for closure....... but we won't get it.
Our leaders are nothing like the leaders of our past. They are cowards and answer only to re-election polls.
All these men and women died. And for what? We could have made their deaths a call to freedom. Instead, we have made their deaths just another meaningless tragedy that we can spend a day each year talking about with sad faces.
I wonder what the world would have been like if we treated Pearl Harbor the same way. We'd probably still be mourning them every year instead of celebrating our victory over tyranny.
I'm not trying to start any political discussion so please don't answer this post back and try to set me straight. I'm just letting you guys know how I feel about it and why I am just as angry about it today as I was the day it happened. The grief is gone. The anger persists.
