I have been watching Fox News this morning, just as I did 6 years ago as I watched the tragedy of 9/11 unfold. That unimaginably tragic event occurred just two days after my wife’s funeral. I literally thought the world was coming to an end, that Vickie had been “spared from Armegaddon” and that I and countless others were left behind to go through it.
That tragedy of six years ago is as unfathomable to me today as it was then. I still have a hard time understanding how a species of such great capabilities as ours, one that can be so creative and so compassionate, can have members that think so little of the lives of others as to snuff them out for their own purposes. There is something within us that causes many to give their lives to save total strangers, as many did on that fateful day. But, there is a dark side that we have not conquered.
One of the people who comforted me when Vickie passed away was a coworker who lost his wife in Flight 803. Although he helped me at a time when few could, I felt like I should have been helping him. After all, at least Vickie’s body had not disintegrated. I could still “visit with her,” whereas he could not not go to one spot to pay respect to his wife’s body. Nor can the loved ones of the 9/11 victims, who are victims themselves.
My heart goes out to everyone who lost a loved one or friend in that senseless tragedy.
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It’s really a SENSELESS and RUTHLESS thing that could ever happen… 911 tragedy. May peace be with the world from now on.