Never

Today is the fourteenth anniversary of that terrible day when planes crashed and buildings disintegrated and thousands of ordinary people were unexpectedly, brutally, gone. A collective national grief was born, virulently angry and unassuagable. The course of the history of humanity was changed -- and not for the better.

Social media is once more full of the pictures from that day, and the hashtag "Never Forget."

As if we ever could.

I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. - Obi-wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope

Rest easy, lost souls. And pray for humanity, for we are lost in our anger and grief and hatred. Help us to find the grace that eludes us. We need it so.

Photograph from the 9/11 memorial found here: 

http://www.businessinsider.com/911-memorial-museum-2014-5