Six years.
I was thinking this morning about 9/11, and about closure.
They say that 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor of our generation. I suppose that's so. But America had closure for Pearl Harbor eventually -- we fought and won World War 2.
What do we have? Iraq, which regardless of whether we win or lose is not closure, because Saddam Hussein didn't cause 9/11. We don't have Osama Bin Laden, and for all we know, we never will. He may be skulking in a cave in Asia, or he may be rotting in an unmarked grave. Either way, no closure there.
So what do we do?
I had some thoughts last year about time and the memory of pain. I find my feelings haven't changed all that much since then.
Two years after 9/11, it was still painful for me to be at work that day. Tomorrow will be an normal workday for me; we're even having a special event, part of a new product launch.
But in my heart, I'll still feel the pain.
God bless you, Kath, wherever you are.
