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Splashed across the top of the CNN homepage is a banner stating: “CNN Pipeline presents CNN’s TV\u00a0 coverage of 9\/11\/2001 free, in real time.\u00a0 Starting at 8:30am.” (Read the CNN Release<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I’m not really sure what to make of this.\u00a0 Part of me is disturbed that they are going to be re-airing this.\u00a0 I wonder what the reasons are behind it.\u00a0 Whether or not it will be used to exploit the public and continue the culture of fear that this administration likes to promote.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I think it is important for us to remember the events of that day.\u00a0 To remember the courage of those who gave their lives to help try to save people trapped in the burning buildings.\u00a0 To remember those who are still giving their lives because they helped despite the air being unsafe after the collapse.<\/p>\n

I truly believe that Sept 11, 2001 will be one of the defining moments of my generation.\u00a0 Much like the assinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. were defining moments of my parents generation.\u00a0 I feel that the American people rose up and did a wonderful thing in the days after the attacks.\u00a0 But I also feel that the current administration has tarnished that legacy.\u00a0 By continuing to promote a culture of fear, of war and of moral superiority, I feel we discount the courage and love so many people showed in the days after the attacks.<\/p>\n

It really makes what happened in South Africa after the fall of apartheid all the more amazing when you think about it.\u00a0 Here was a situation where a minority of people had been exploiting the majority population for years and years.\u00a0 Yet when this situation finally came to an end, a few men had the courage and strength to stand up and say, “I forgive you.”\u00a0 They worked for reconciliation and peace.<\/p>\n

A quote from Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain<\/em> as Merton talks about Aldous Huxley’s Ends and Means<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The point of his title was this: we cannot use evil means to attain a good end.\u00a0 Huxley’s chief argument was that we were using the means that precisely made good ends impossible to attain:\u00a0 war, violence, reprisals, rapacity.\u00a0 And he traced our impossibility to use the proper means to the fact that men were immersed in the material and animal urges of an element in their nature which was blind and crude and unspiritual. (Merton. 202-3)<\/p>\n

One small glimpse of grace in our chaotic world.\u00a0 Just imagine if we approached all our conflicts with a goal of reconciliation and peace.\u00a0 With grace in our heart.\u00a0 What a wonderful world that would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Splashed across the top of the CNN homepage is a banner stating: “CNN Pipeline presents CNN’s TV\u00a0 coverage of 9\/11\/2001 free, in real time.\u00a0 Starting at 8:30am.” (Read the CNN Release) I’m not really sure what to make of this.\u00a0 Part of me is disturbed that they are going to be re-airing this.\u00a0 I wonder … <\/p>\n

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