In memoriam
September 11th, 2006 by Liss
For 2,973 people, the last five years in our nation’s history have been a memoriam of sorts. Actions taken in their collective name; angry words spoken on their behalf. Actions they never asked for; words they never spoke. What would they have done, given the chance? What would they have said, if we could listen?
“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
- H.L. Mencken
For each innocent life taken five years ago, another has been taken in an unlikely matchmaking - 2,974 U.S. military service members have been killed in Iraq and in the so-called “war on terror” to date.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
- Voltaire
Almost six thousand lives gone. Six thousand flames of unknowable potential, snuffed needlessly too soon. Six thousand sons and daughters. Six thousand sisters. brothers. Six thousand mothers. fathers. husbands. wives. best friends. soul mates. Every one was someone’s baby. Every one was someone’s world. Every one deserved so much better.
“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.