A nation forgets.

I stil remember this day, three years prior. It was a tragedy that transformed this nation, and even the world, whether or not anyoine wants to publically acknowledge that. Changes in security, in background checks, even in policies such as the Patriot Act, they all are efforts to fix something too late. Five years ago, a Phillips screwdriver or an unsheathed razor blade did not garner a second glance. Now, "flying the friendly skies" includes taking off one's shoes for inspection at the gate.

The thing that really saddens me is that the young people seem to have already forgotten the price paid, and the sense of brotherhood. Now it seems, the young people have moved on, and it is not acceptable to think they believe this merely an anniversary of a page in their textbooks. Fuck that.