Carolyn wrote the following 7 years ago and I thought it brilliant, just as she is.

so, on 9-11 here are my thoughts...

9-11 was awful, horrific, painful. It changed politics, policy and impacted 1000's of lives across the globe.

Eleven years later, we as a society are subjected to news reels and memorials for days leading up to and including today, September 11.

To me, this serves the agenda of the terrorists as we are forced to relive the terror and uncertainty that those hours and days bought to us. We again become consumed by fear, the agent of motivation for any terrorist group.

When a loved one dies, we place a marker with loving words inscribed, or plant a tree in a memorial garden, place a bench in a favourite park.

For those personally touched, grieve, wallow, move through the pain that this senseless act created, just as we grieve loved ones in our daily lives. For the rest of us who lived the terror of the unknown evil, I feel it is time to grow and move on.

Today, I feel should become a day of service. Unions in a city can donate the day to build a home for habitat for humanity, off duty firefighter's and police could rebuild playground equipment for the children who are our next generation. These acts of service and growth can stand as testament to all of the good who lost their lives needlessly and permit society the approval to move on and grow rather than being dragged back to days of terror and reigniting that terror in our hearts that give the terrorist's an open door into our communal psyche.