Where were you when the towers fell, and the
 Pentagon was crushed, and so many perished. 

I Was Everywhere

I am every man. I was everywhere when the Towers fell.
  I was at work, in school, plowing the fields, changing a 
diaper, typing a letter, driving a truck, making decisions 
that affect our economy. I was doing whatever mundane,
 every day task that runs my life. And now my life is 
irreparably changed by the act of madmen who believe 
that God will make a place for them in heaven because
 of their hatred. I have lost my spouse, my parent, my friend,
 my childhood. I have lost my faith in humanity. I have lost
 my innocence and my ability to trust.
I may well have lost my future. 

I have changed from a loving, forgiving person to
 someone who knows full well that the days ahead
 will be filled with war and I will have to, at the 
very least, encourage and applaud the death of 
 someone else in order to survive.
 I am standing on the very edge of Armageddon,
 and I have lost myself and I have found fear.

But I have also found a unity in spirit in a nation that
 has been too long divided. I have found heroes in 
everyday people doing their everyday jobs. I have seen  continuing acts of faith as people search for their loved
 ones. I have seen a need to do something, anything,
 from every corner of my country. I have seen an entire
world, far removed from my tragedy, embrace my sorrow
  and stand for me. I have heard my country's anthem
 ring from the very countries that we once 
considered our enemies.

 

I am ashamed that I read of bombings in Israel and 
thought, "how sad", and did nothing; read of 
of car bombs in England and reflected only briefly
 on man's inhumanity to man;  I have watched brothers
 fight brothers in Bosnia and did nothing to heal 
their anger. I am brought to my knees with shame 
that I saw the horrors inflicted on other countries on my 
television set, and changed the channel. It is only now,
  now that it is here, in my own backyard, that people have
 died and lives have been changed, and only now do I
 understand how horrible it is that people hate and destroy. 

May God help us all.

~ author unknown ~

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