9/11

[motto (RIP)]

Wow Tony. I had never thought of how the event may have affected those of an unstable mind. It was difficult enough for folk in full command of their faculties to come to grips with.
I was rostered off that day and was alerted to what was happening by a phone call from my father in law who lived across the road. For the next several hours the family was glued to the TV as events unfolded.
I tried to reconcile what we were looking at with footage we have all seen of Japanese Kamikaze attacks during WW2 but this was different. The planes were civilian airliners of a type I made my living maintaining so carefully and were fully loaded with passengers. The target was unsuspecting ordinary people going about their daily business.
Even now I find the utter, cold blooded contempt for human life displayed for everyone to see impossible to comprehend. The realisation that such hatred exists has changed the world and has added to a sense of unease as we are forced into a position of eternal vigilance.
It aint over yet. It will never be over.

David