One wonders how 9/11 would have been experienced had smart phones proliferated twelve years ago. That is one indication of how this world has changed; we all have camera phones, we all have smartphones, we all have cell phones. More videos of that moment the planes hits and the buildings collapsed and thousands died. More video of the smoke plumes out of the Pentagon, the city streets filling with commuters spiraling in every direction, trapped in the city as public transportation shut down. One wonders if cellular networks would have just shut down, and we would have been relegated to hovering in front of televisions, just like we were anyway, twelve years ago today.
I will never forget that morning.Though today seems like an ordinary morning, with talk of football and sweltering temperatures. It's not perfect and sunny and beautiful, a late summer day, like that day, twelve years ago. We face new challenges and risks in this country, and we face terrors and unknowns that we will confront, forced or not.
If you do forget, though, you can see for yourself.
God bless America, and God save the souls of those who perished that day. And may God comfort all of those who still mourn the loss of a loved one, family and friend, colleague and neighbor. We all were touched by loss that day, but some have an enduring void in their life. Time may help heal all wounds, but the scars remain.
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