View From the Bushes

As I've listened to the radio today (NPR), watched TV and surfed the web, I've come across a lot of stuff commemorating the 2nd anniversary of September 11th. Enough so that I contemplated making it the subject for my entry today. And then I decided not to, and then I changed my mind again, but rather than talk about September 11th I actually want to talk about how while it is entirely appropriate to discuss, commemorate, remember and even in a sense venerate this day that talking only goes so far.

In thinking about this, I was reminded of The Gettysburg Address. I think Abraham Lincoln expressed my sentiments about September 11th better than I ever could. So I'll just let him speak:

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross