The stillness of the morning spread across the eastern seaboard as people readied for a busy day. Cities were waking. Streets were becoming crowded. Airports were busy with the start of the day as the usual air-traffic readied to take to the air. Planes fill with businessmen and women, mothers and fathers, vacationers and visitors eager to get to their planned destinations. Others boarded the planes, too. They had a mission in mind. They were eager to strike back, kill and murder as many people as they possibly could knowing they would die as a result of their efforts. The planned attack was carried out by terrorists. They hijacked four commercial jets with the intent of crashing them into landmark buildings, the Twin Towers in New York City, The Pentagon building, and one purportedly intended to crash into a building in the District of Columbia. As two of the planes ripped into one each the Twin Towers, sending them both to the ground in a matter of hours, they killed mothers, fathers, children, aunts, uncles, firefighters, and loved ones. Another plane tore into the Pentagon, again killing innocent people. The fourth jet crashed short of its intended building, crashing into a field near Shanksville, PA. The operation changed lives across the globe as the fatality list included people of some ninety nations. It transformed our world permanently. The after effects are felt by every nation. The reason for the attacks was cited as protests to U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia and the continuing strife in Middle Eastern countries. The consequences included drastic changes to air travel, business, and global economies, not to mention the number of lives it coincidentally touched. We still feel the impacts today. Hate crimes have become prevalent. Distrust seeped into the minds of even the most stoic minded men and women. Religious rights advocates from all faiths affirm their beliefs, though some take umbrage in the fact that others have the right to worship freely. Sectarian conflicts have long led to sedition, a historical fact that goes back thousands of years. Yet, as of today, we have yet learned to live in harmony. Strife, conflict, politics, religious motive, superstition, and clashes existed even in the eleventh century, and were known as The Crusades. These religious wars were fought between religious believers of differing faiths, as Crusaders took binding oaths to be granted penance for past indulgences. We have yet to learn the consequences of harboring zealous religious differences hundreds of years later. Faith, the belief or confidence in other peoples’ right to practice freely, should dictate a morality of decency for all religions, as long as those practices do not harbor consequences against others. The lessons we didn’t learn from the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and the Shanksville, PA crashes, and other like attacks and wars dating back centuries, speak loudly for the need a new understanding of humanity. It stresses just how much requisite changes would alter our lives for the better. Humanity should take the necessary steps to move above the petty religious, political, and social trivialities that separate rather than unite the nations of people across the globe. Being strong enough to reconcile the separating differences takes enduring volition, patience, and understanding. Let the memorial in New York City at the site of the Twin Towers act as a symbol, one that stresses the need for change, one that will epitomize social, religious, and political tolerance for all.
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The incidents of the terrorists strike will be remembered forever; yet, the reason for strive and tension are yet to be overcome.
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