The first September 11th memorial was dedicated today at the Pentagon. Memorials are fitting and I look forward to those at Shanksville, PA and New York but I would like voice the opinion that a Day of Reflection be observed on a national basis as a holiday. On that day, when people looked at the face of evil and personally confronted their immanent demise they universally turned to family and friends to say good bye, "I Love You". Their thoughts were not of work or sports or any of the other small narrow things which seem to bond and divide people across every artificial line we can imagine. Around the world, everyone whose heart was not possessed by the evil one, reacted with shock and in a humanness which unites all.
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