September 14, 2021
Prayers goes out to our US neighbours who had to endure the shock and horror of the 9/11 terrorists attacks some 20 years ago.
It has been a long and scary road for Americans since September 11, 2001. The load has been carried by everyone around the world. The price we all paid for those attacks was too much if you ask me, the lives lost and the countless indignities we all suffered and have to suffer as a result of it.
Caribbean people were in those towers as much as it was Americans and people from other countries around the world.
It’s more than just the deaths of those in the towers, but the many dead soldiers along with Middle Eastern people in Afghanistan and Iraq who died from military actions as a response to the attacks.
I didn’t make a mistake and say Iraq was a part of the War on Terror. Beating up on Afghanistan was too direct, the US had to wipe out the big bully on the block that had it coming to him anyway in Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Be that as it may, too many lives lost and we can’t travel in peace through the airports as a result of these attacks. We also cannot use our telephones or social media without someone listening in to us. Quite unfortunate for the rest of us decent, peace loving people.
America clearly has not forgotten those attacks and will not forget in my lifetime. They were shocked out of their socks over the level of detail, sophistication and planning on their own soil that went into those attacks.
I don’t want to make myself sound slow, but it took me six months after the attacks to realize that the attacks happened on 9-1-1, the emergency numbers. Call the ambulance because it is an emergency.
Will it ever happen again? We don’t know and we hope that it doesn’t. We hope the international security personnel understand how to keep us safe. Let’s just continue to keep vigilant and remember the families of those who lost loved ones in our prayers.