9/11

In taking my daily blog tour today, I came across numerous posts related to the fifth anniversary of the event, and even more senseless and ignorant ranting from the right and the left about who to blame. It continues to amaze me how our society can look at objective, verifiable facts and make huge, sweeping and at best tangentially related conclusions lambasting others as vile and despicable people for daring to have different views on tax structure, trade policy and domestic security.

Instead, lets take today and appreciate that we live in a country where we are free to believe and say what we want to believe and/or say, or not say if we choose, and remember the lives lost five years ago and every day before and since in wars, conflicts, to terrorism and to things such as treatable diseases.