Five Years Later, #1



Five years. That sure is hard to believe.

Five years since that September morning when a new generation had a new Pearl Harbor to remember. Five years of war and fear and increased security and concerns about civil liberties and patriot acts and more rhetoric than we have heard in years and years.

For the next few days we will all be reliving that day that brought most of the world home to us here in the United States. Did it change the world forever, or did it simply bring a new understanding of the world to us in ways we may never have understood before then?

So I thought I would add my voice to the many voices we will here. I am not doing this because I think I have something new or unique to say. I am doing it because it is my way of getting down to the feelings I felt then- and am living with today. I will be showing some of the pictures that I took when my wife and I had a chance to be in New York City in June. The World Trade Center site is a place of quiet emotion and remembrance which is why I am using them.

Perhaps some of the graffiti says it best. So for today instead of looking only back, here is a note to the city itself left by a visitor. It sure seems a good way to start this retrospective... a reminder that the city- and by extension, the United States... are both very much alive and recovering.