Today of all days.

Our parents have Pearl Harbor and we have the World Trade Center.
Remembering that day on September 9, 2001 happens more than once a year.
When I see Veterans I always say thank you shake their hand and ask to give them a hug. It's not only for them but the others who continue to help protect us from such acts.
While speaking to my children this morning I asked them what made Pearl Harbor and The World Trade Center different and my son said "nothing". Both were acts of war. The difference I told him was that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki our morals were changed drastically. But how can one have a war without innocent people getting hurt?
The answer I gave was you can't. That is why our troops have been over in the middle east for so long. They are trying to get the factions that planned the attack, hurting as few innocent people as possible. Terrorists will always use a human shield of innocence, when they can, to protect themselves. The innocent will learn to stay as far away from the terrorists a possible (hopefully).
Unfortunately there are always those who haven't anything, that when promised something (anything), will do what ever it takes to achieve that given something.
Stalin, Hitler, Hiroshima and Lao controlled the populous by saying that they were down trodden due to others. They just gave a target and history repeats and repeats and repeats.
The only way that I see an end to war aggression is an end to the world. There will always be those who have and those who have not. Unless you are willing to do what it takes to make gains. Sometimes there is just nothing to be done on a large scale and it needs to start at the bottom and work its way up, together.
There will also always be those who want and take things that don't belong to them. Trying to gain the easy way. But at what cost?
So today is a history lesson. Today is a Critical thinking day. Today is a day to think outside the box of our own little existance and do something for the greater good.