7 YEARS AGO

7 YEARS AGO

Can you recall what you were doing 7 years ago or where you were? We have learned to measure time in this country by 9/11. The days leading up to it may be a little fuzzy, but no one can ever forget what we were doing or where we were on that fateful day in September of 2001.

It was a day that would forever change our lives, our country, and history. I am sure that all of you were just going about your business 7 years ago today...............maybe getting your yard ready for the winter, maybe enjoying the beautiful fall day, maybe going grocery shopping, maybe taking your kids to school. maybe watching the clock until quitting time. Whatever you were doing was very routine and would have basically been unmemorable had it not been for the following day.

America and Americans lived, for the most part, not in fear but in accepted trust. We lived in America!! We would always be secure. We knew our government would protect us without even giving it a second thought. There was no need to waste energy or time in thinking about how vulernable we were...............vulnerablity was never associated with the strength and power of our country.

And then it happened!!! We were attacked and our lives would never be the same as they were 7 years ago. Once the shock wore off, after the anger set in, the realization that we, as a country and therefore we, as a people, were not unconquerable. We were no longer the power house we thought we were. We were vulnerable and would never again be secure. Our lives and the world in which we lived in changed, never more to be the life and world of 7 years ago.

We can all tell you where we were and what were doing when those planes exploded into the World Trade Center towers, but I doubt if many of us would recall where we were or what were doing 7 years ago today. Now we relate our country's fate to that fateful day of 9/11. We, the trusting people of 9/10, are no more. In a sense we have lost our innocence, so to speak and that fact is only overshadowed by the events of 9/11.

Let us never forget what our lives were before that fateful day and how they have become since that day. May God bless all those who lost loved ones on 9/11.

ANSWER TO LAST TRIVIA QUESTION: Gone with the Wind trivia: Olivia de Havilland always meticulously researched her roles. As she had not yet had a baby in real life, she visited a maternity hospital to study how various women coped with the stresses of childbirth for the scene where Melanie has her baby. Off-camera, the scene's director, George Cukor would occassionally do something to her to cause her to feel pain. What did he do? He would occasionally pinch her toes to make her feel pain.
TODAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: What movie was hyped like this: “Jim Stark - a kid from a 'good' family - what makes him tick...like a bomb?"
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician