This post will be included on all of my blogs today, in remembrance of those who have lost their lives, and those that gave them trying to save others...
We all know what happened seven years ago today.. And while I'm still not sure of who exactly attacked those innocent lives or how the reinforced towers fell due to extreme heat (steel has never melted from a fire) or why witnesses reported secondary explosions or why an airliner was able to penetrate the Pentagon's airspace after the Towers had been attacked... but I do believe I know why they choose the targets they did.. The Twin Towers were symbolic of America's wealth, trade, and capitalistic values, and the Pentagon represents our military power.
Over 2,900 Americans and 236 foreigners died in the attacks, and many are still missing and presumed dead.
This is the world we live in... Consider these facts:
Currently in Iraq, there have been over 87,000 civilian and 4,155 American military casualties.
In the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1,290 Palestinians and 86 Israelis have been killed.
An estimated 160,000 to 400,000 have been murdered in the Darfur region of Africa, and the genocide is still occurring to date.
In 1994, the UN reports that 800,000 were killed during the Rwandan Genocide.
During the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, an estimated 1,700,000 lost their lives.
From 1933 to 1935, the Holocaust claimed the lives of an estimated 9,000,000 to 11,000,000.
Over 1,500,000 Armenians were killed from 1915 to 1917.
Why do we continue to harm each other? Hatred and misunderstanding. Extremism and twisted views.
We are all human-- no matter who our God is, what color our skin is, who our ancestors were, or what's mine and what's yours. It's time we started treating each other that way!
Thank you to all the peace-makers. Thank you to all those that try to help and save others. And today, we should not only remember those that died seven years ago in the 9/11 attacks, but the millions who have lost their lives from the misguided hatred of others in our past...
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September 11, 2008
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