Noticing a lot of people remembering Sept. 11 today.
I've been spending the last nine years trying to forget it. Not the folks who were murdered, mind you -- they are much remembered. I'd prefer to forget the horror of the day (I saw the whole damned thing from my desk at AP) and the anxiety and paranoia and war that followed.
But this year, for some reason, some really hateful people really seem to be trying to use the memory of that day to divide us as a nation for their own political agenda rather than solemnize it as an honest day of remembrance.
Now I'm about to touch the third rail of religion, so if you don't care what I honestly believe, I'm not going to make you read it and this is a good place for you to stop.
If you're still with me...
To those folks who would use today to divide us: If we really want to make this divided country whole again and a better place to live, then we need a whole lot less Sept. 11 as a war cry and a whole lot more Luke 6:27 and Matthew 5:44.
