Most everyone recalls the moment that the attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon occurred.  We all watched and listened to how the Flight 93 story developed into a heroic effort by those already doomed to die that spared many lives - assumedly in Washington DC.

Questions remain that are still unanswered. How was the government able to so quickly identify the hijackers even though they supposedly used false names and everything on board was consumed by fire?  Why were there no airplane parts at the Pentagon?  What about the indications of a missle taking down Flight 93?  What about that airplane blew up in the air shortly after 9/11?  We don’t even recall the flight number that killed those people - do we?  I do not suggest that I subscribe to any conspiracy theories, but I do assert that some fantastic details about 9/11 have gone unexplained.

Then there’s the American Government’s response; one that is typical of its mentality:  throw money at the problem.  Millions of $$ have been provided to airlines, businesses, and family members of those who died that day.  Millions that were given on top of privately held insurance policies.  Millions of $$ that were taken out of salaries around the nation through convenient payroll deduction.  We are now tied up in the nation of Iraq justified by a number of flimsy and spurious reasons.

Billions of $$ have been spent limiting the liberty of the American people in a supposed attempt to make us more secure. Still, we are more vulnerable than ever: if not to terrorists, to the anti-constitutional factions that desire to make citizens mindless automatons that support the state. Bush has managed to alienate virtually every conservative citizen in the USA though his blatant inconsistancy.  He says the nation must be more secure, then he encourages strangers from Mexico to violate our borders and our laws in their efforts to re-conquer Amercia.

These few reasons are just an example of why I have difficulty joining in with all the 9/11 anniversary hype.  I wish it didn’t happen.  I am sad that so many people died.  I wish I knew the Government was telling the truth.  I wish that I had a chance to give, rather than Billions given though Bush.  I wish our government was trustworthy and that it operated in a way that did not generate constant suspicion.

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