It is nine years since the tragedy of September 11 and I am feeling the need to focus my thoughts both in honor of the nearly 3,000 victims of 9/11 and the awakening of Western cultures to the threat of fundamentalist Islam. My intent is not to provide a history and analysis of what led up to 9/11 or what has happened in the intervening years that directly stem from that horrible event. It is only to relate my thoughts spurred that day and during the immediate aftermath.
