Five years ago, on this day, I happened to be online from work.  Someone mentioned that the news was saying a bad plane crash had just happened in New York – we had a cable feed in the office, so I turned the projector on.  I didn’t move away from the projector for several hours, stunned by what was unfolding.  I had been to New York just a few months before, and stood at the base of the towers – the same towers that would crash to the ground from the actions of a few men.

Five years later, we’re not much further along the road to solving the problems brought to the surface on this day five years ago.  I don’t agree with how the governments of the USA and UK have handled the ‘war on terrorism’.  A ‘war’ on an abstract concept.  What a fiasco.  Unfortunately, there’s no way to rewind time and sort this all out, so we can only try to make the best of things as time marches forwards.

To those who lost someone in the tragedy of 2001/09/11, and to those who have lost someone in all of the tradgedy since then, I offer my thoughts – words are not sufficient.