We have seen so many times the last few years people in other parts of the world rejoicing in our losses on 9/11. It's only fitting that the United States has it's moment now that the ringleader of this attack who boasted about it over the decade has met justice. I lost people I knew in New York on 9/11/01. Another friend is permanently scarred from escaping the Twin Towers that day, I am sure that few reading this did not know someone personally affected. This battle is not over, not by any means. But this is a win for the sake of those we lost on September 11. We need to take this moment. Bin Laden has met justice. I am not sorry at all this has happened. So tonight we cheer for a bit. We honor the memories of those we lost. But tomorrow, we must return to pray for and work towards peace in this world.
About Me
- DrBen
- I’m a 56-year-old Information Systems Manager at a major Teaching Hospital. In my other life, I'm a community activist, union officer, creative writer, Episcopal lay minister and hospital chaplain. I grew up in Glastonbury Connecticut, living there until 1986. Since then I've lived in Chicago, Boston and now California. I live in Tahoe Park, a working-class neighborhood of Sacramento in a converted Catholic Rectory with my two cats, Tiger and Muffin. For the first time in years, I am mowing the lawn, and fixing what goes wrong in an 80+year old building. I once more enjoy trips to Home Depot, and after years of living in a college town which rolls up the sidewalks at night, I enjoy being back in the hustle and bustle of a city neighborhood. In my free time, I work on restoring (and camping in) a classic VW Camper Van, bicycling writing, reading, making or listening to music. I'm a 3-time survivor on Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (also surviving a life-threatening treatment-related infection in 2005), and have been healthy since a Bone Marrow Transplant in 2001. I’m a peer counselor for cancer and BMT patients.
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