Today's QOTD: September 11, 2010

"Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream..." - Anonymous

Today of all days is the time to close our eyes, cry and dream.  The families of the victims of the tragic events 9 years ago today should be in our hearts, our minds, and our dreams.  The families of the Challenger Tragedy back in 1986 can relate, as can the familes from the OKC tragedy of 4/19/95.  The heartache is different for each family and each person, but it is still a common thread, only in greater numbers in 1995 and in 2001 than it was in 1986.  Still, it affected all of us very deeply.

I leave you with this poem, authored by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. in 1941 (shortly before his death in WW2 on December 11, 1941), and used in the Eulogy for the Challenger Astronauts by then President Ronald Reagan:

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

— John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Please pray for the families of the victims, and that they may heal over time - and that we may never re-live the horrors of that day as we mark the 9th Anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil.  It's hard to believe it's been 9 years . . .

Think about it . . .

Yogi:  9/11/2010  2:36PM CDT