The day of infamy where a coordinated Islamic Fundamentalist group Al Queda attacked Lower Manhattan, Arlington and other places in the United States killed thousands. It was sudden, strange and the world was caught by surprise. It’s is almost a quarter of a century now and many of our young people are quite unaware of them.
The whole thing is somehow like an old song that is heard but whose Message and Relevance is not felt, it came from a distant past far too distant I may say that it never carries a weight on its collective memory.
The 9/11 would sadly pass by without the worlds notice and it is a thing that Filipinos shrugged off as something that is not worthy of ones attention.
This tendency to forget is a curse and it’s a sad curse, we humans tend to forget the past and the lesson it brought, that is why we do repeat the mistakes of the past because we have not learned its lessons. We have not fully comprehended it’s weight so much so that it becomes irrelevant, now.
In our country , we are often referred to as people with a short memory.
We do not dwell on the past and its lessons because we do them reset and focus on what’s to come.
Thus, we suffer the brutal effect of our forgetfulness, we became victims of our own doing.
The 9/11 attacks, is a foul and unmistakably evil mass murderers ploy.
The violence it employed are barbaric and beyond comprehension
If we want to deter, stop and prevent this from happening again, we must never forget.
