Terrible Anniversary

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

September 11, 2001, was a day that changed everything. Americans never knew a world of terror that other nations live with but on that day, terror was brought to our shores, and we could not ignore it anymore. 9/11 became more than the number that you would call in an emergency, it became a place in time that a generation would remember exactly where that where on that fateful day, much like 11/22/1963 or 12/7/1941, 9/11/2001 would become another reminder if tragedy.  

This day everything changed, Airports became more secure, before 9/11 TSA wasn’t a thing. Long lines at Airports became the new normal, line that a generation have always know. 9/11 plunged the U.S. into a 20-year war, a war against people and countries that had no part in the atrocities of 9/11. Our war was against an idea, not a nation, terror had come to our shores and in reactionary retaliation we took terror to Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military might toppled Sadam Hussan and the infrastructure of Iraq and eventually killed the master mind behind the 9/11 attacks Osama Bin laden while ravaging a country that has seen war for hundreds of years Afghanistan.  

The terror of 9/11 still lives with us with home grown terrorist and lacks gun laws, we fool ourselves that we can stop terror at the boarder or that it has a brown face… we can’t and it doesn’t.

Remember the tragedy…don’t replay it.