Living in the Past

As I've read Lileks over the last six months, every so often he recounts the surfacing of strong emotions over the September 11th attacks. Read today's Bleat if you want to see why the feelings still run strongly. In today's blog, Lileks responds to a doof who holds that 9/11 has NOT changed America and another doof who thinks that we are just wallowing in self pity and the best thing for you stupid Americans to do is put a sock in it and move on.

Well, they're wrong. 9/11 changed everything. Period. Simple as that.

There is no doubt in my mind that given even the opportunity and void the already thin veil of protection we have, there exists a group of people whose sole mission is to destroy my home, my church and my workplace. They one desire is to kill my friends, my coworkers, my son, my daughter, my wife, our soon to be born child.

I want things to be different. It has to be different.

On September 10th, there was ignorance and stupor. September 11th, shock, fear and anger (today's theme). September 12th. . .

What would you have to be different, if anything? And how does the mission of the church work itself out in this environment?