Today as all of us know has been a look back and some of us looking forward. Forward to what is coming and grateful to the past for what we have been blessed to receive and live through. Ten years ago most everyone's life was changed even in the tiniest way. If we looked at people, really looked at them and said hello and wished them well. We, the citizens that reside in the USA became one voice for about 3 days, all were thinking of those people who lost their lives in NYC, DC, and Flight 93. We also thought about their families and how they were doing, some of us thought we needed to make an outward difference so they joined the service, some made their way to Missions and Rescue sights and are still there working with the residents, some prayed, a lot of us prayed (it is our God given right and we exercised that), some went to work to find better ways to catch the criminals and some wrote programs to keep the security systems up and running and better than they were before. All of us changed that day, that day whether you had any family, friend, connection all were touched by those explosions into buildings and the countryside, and the horrific crumbling of those two buildings in NYC. Today I watched a lot of the coverage of the 10th memorial of that day, I was impressed at how reverent the news media was today on every channel, at every memorial sight, how much respect they had today to make this about the remembering and paying homage to those who gave their lives, not voluntarily, most of those dear lives that were lost on this day 10 years ago were regular people going to work, less than a quarter of the lives lost were military, law enforcement, fire department or other civil service persons. It is amazing that we don't hear more of their stories, we honor those that gave their lives by doing their job, a job that they all "signed up" for, do we honor those over 3/4 of the 2,973 that did not "ask" to be put in harm's way? We should honor them, we should give their families a voice everyday not that they are "extra" victims, but they weren't in civil service they went to work that day. They did know (most of them) that their fate had been decided, they called their loved ones and said goodbye but who speaks for them today, all of us should. I watched again today, the footage of some of them at the windows and deciding their death as they jumped out from 100 stories up. God Bless them all. Nothing can take that from the memories of those below as they watched them in real time. Who takes care of those people with those images in their memories? God Bless them as they need healing, they need comfort, they need strength to keep moving forward. I pray for all of those people that left this world on 9/11/01, I pray for their families, friends and co-workers who survived, I pray for us as we continue on our paths that have been paved for us. May God Bless you and keep you. May His face shine upon you and give you peace. In Jesus' name, Amen.