9/11

I would listen to my mom tell stories about the attack on Pearl Harbor...the beginning of WWII for the US...and cringe to think that awful thing could happen to us...and would have nightmares as a little guy...about bombs dropping...weird, huh...and then...it happened...9/11/01...

We dropped off Cris at Pomona College and were staying in Sunriver for a week...or so we thought...and were scheduled to fly out to Maui the next week...as I was drinking some coffee, the news went to this horrifying tale of a plane crashing into a skyscraper in NYC...then another...OMG!, we were under attack!...

We had just been in the City the week before...only time that we had...as Cris was looking at Dentist Schools...just so happened we had taken a harbor cruise and I took pix of the city...later on I would go thru the camera and see the twin towers...which I eventually made a photo and framed...

How did such a colossal blunder happen?...the evil found a way to penetrate us...and our system of defense was put to the defense and we failed...revision was necessary...and woke us up...

In the aftermath, we wanted to strike back...the problem was and is...the evil people are not from a country, but are scabs living and hiding in different parts of the world...and retribution was very difficult...who we attacked is up for debate...but we did get the monster eventually...

The people who gave their lives for this, we shall never forget about...and the act, too, will never be forgotten...

Peace...