Where were you on 9/11/2001? Do you remember…
What this day is about every year beyond these memories, is the renewed vow of vigilance. A time to revisit all the reasons why you have made the decisions you have since that Tuesday morning in America so many years ago.
Never forget that day. Never forget why you wake each morning.
9/11 vigilance is about being adaptive. It is about resilience. For those of us who have never paid the same price as those who have served, supported and are the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters or relatives of those who have, we can never know or really feel what they have. We can only pledge our vigilance in continuing our respective missions.
Most of all. The mission is not America's alone and the entire planet understands this. As they teach the history of 9/11 in the schools of New York City, Haiti, Chile, Pakistan, India and even Saudi Arabia, what do you think the lesson is about?
If it is not about vigilance and resilience, then we are doing our children a disservice. We must be preparing them for the future threats that this globe will be facing in the years and decades before us.
Whether it is the wrath of "Mother Nature" or the evil planning of ordinary people does not matter. We can never predict exactly the day the hour or when and where the next attack will occur.
Whether it will impact our buildings, bridges, rivers, schools or the Internet is unknown. If all of us on this 3rd rock from the sun, have done our job teaching our kids about vigilance and resilience, then we should all be able to have a peaceful nights sleep.
Devoid of nightmares.
"Remember that Tuesday in September across the globe for the lessons we have all learned since that infamous day in New York City, Washington, DC and Shanksville, Pennsylvania."
For the children, teach them the truth…
