Post 4: 8 years later

As many people commemorate the attacks of 9/11, the History Channel has played many different specials on the events of that tragic day. Seeing the footage again made me realize once again how there is true evil in the world and that it needs to be stopped. The History Channel created a new documentary that they played today (which I plan on seeing later- thank you DVR) that showed first person accounts with pictures and interviews. The one quote that took me back was a person commenting on the debris once the towers fell. Many said that it looked like a nuclear blast, but one person commented that, "You couldn't see black or white people, onlly gray people." It reminded me that in utter tragedy, our problems are passed aside and we re-evaluate what is important and unified as a country. Unfortunately, we lost sight of this feeling years later and other tragedies like Hurricane Katrina had the reverse effect with the negative images of "black looters" and "white survivors." We need to remind ourselves how we can become unified as a country and that our issues of race/gender/sexuality can be put aside when we consider what is truly important. God bless those who lost family and friends 8 years ago, and God bless all those who gave their lives to save others.