I'm glad September 11th is over. It's very depresssing and heart-wrenching. I don't want to forget, but it doesn't mean that I want to watch the people fall through the air to their deaths, of to hear the poor people who lost loved ones anymore. All of that is already engrained in my memory, there for me whenever I close my eyes. I feel sad, but we must continue to live as best we can. The only thing we can do is pledge our support in making sure that events like that don't happen again. Recommended by Charles Johnson, I picked up a copy of Six Days of War, subtitled "June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East". As an American who is aware of the fact that I'm not completely aware, I'm doing my best to stay caught up on current events as well as to educate myself about the past so that when I say we need to kill Saddam and Arafat, I can then give good reasons why. It's a small thing, but one that I feel is important.
As an aside, a while back I came across a story from Princeton about randomness. Yesterday the New York daily numbers were 911. Then some stock index closed out at 911.00 (I saw it on the news, I'm looking for a link). There's still a lot of things we don't understand in the world.