One Event, Two Fights

Good morning world. Another year has flown by since the 9/11 tragedy. A date where conspiracy theorists and mourners gather seperately to discuss the World Trade Center collapse and it's already been five years on. A time where the already seared into memory photos of the second plane hitting the tower gets shown on every media outlet from Anchorage to Fort Lauderdale. A time to reflect and re-open old wounds and old arguments about the War on Terror. A time already captured on Hollywood's golden reels and regurgitated for all the world to see again and again.

How about a moment of silence. How about we all just live today... live like any other day... we'll remember those who were lost, but let's keep the remembrance to one another if it didn't directly affect us.

It is a symbolic day, but let's think for one second that this terrorist attack was done to disrupt the Western world and all that it stands for. If we have to stop and realize this fear for an entire day... if it needs to be blasted in our faces for 24 hours on TV (not to mention the week leading up to 9/11)... if we have to change our ways any further... then it is to say that terrorism has won.

I know there are those fighting vigilantly overseas... I know there are people fighting vigilantly for the truth in North America... I hope they all keep up the good fight, because now the web has been weaved. The idea that the truth isn't completely known, although the truth may not need to have been known to it's fullest... we live in a time where knowledge, be it fact or fiction, is power and it is held above everyone by those who have it. These are two great fights that are defining our time and our place in our own insignificant history. Both battles are fighting oppression and at least one of them, the good will be victorious.

That will be the most glorious time, stemmed from such a tragedy.