9/11 brought unity while we stand divided in the moment of the now
We stood together. In shock, in disbelief, in mourning, America stood together with social and political divisions irrelevant.
We stood together as Americans. That continued for I-don’t-know how long or brief. We stood together.
Now, today, we are foreign to each other. Enemies over what differences we can find and decisions we can react to. And the toughest part of all is knowing how we’ve moved away from the concept of unity. We’ve moved away and displaced ourselves from the values and practices that make America great.
Wrongs were committed and the atrocious transpired on September 11th, 2001. A different kind of atrocious transpires seventeen years later. If only we, the people, would wake up to it instead of standing firm with divisional and thinking/acting for self and striding away from each other.
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