Lessons of 9/11/01
September 11, 2001: Four American commercial passenger jets are highjacked at the height of a morning commute. One of the highjacked planes is flown into the Pentagon, leaving a gaping hole, killing 125 people, and surprising the governmental employees at work there. Two more planes are crashed into the World Trade Center Towers in New York City, reducing the twin structures to rubble and killing 2,603 people in the process. Another plane crashes in a field in Pennsylvania, brought down by the strength and determination and sheer heroism of those passengers and crew who refused to die pointlessly at the demand of others, sacrificing themselves so others would live. The 246 people aboard the planes, the 19 highjackers, and another 400 rescuers, in addition to those in the targeted buildings, died that day. Over 3,000 souls were lost in a matter of minutes.
It is a day -a morning- that will not soon be forgotten in the minds of most Americans, or in the minds of much of the World. America went into shock. We retreated from business and from our petty daily battles of the physical world and focussed on family. We came together in a sense of patriotism that had been lapsing through our petty in-fighting, and we re-identified as a Nation again.
Our hearts were handed to us that day. Our love and bravery rekindled. Our sense of priorities reshuffled. Our compassion reignited. Family and country were suddenly and shockingly more important than the usual high-end business manipulations. Helping others, others who needed our help, became a priority the nation over. We faced our fear -on a variety of levels- but LOVE and COMPASSION are the true, lasting, stronger results of the events that day. Let us remember that lesson, and live in LOVE.
Peace, Love, and Light to all.
Namaste.
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