[David in San Antonio]

Uncle Gene had been in the Navy during Korea. Worked as a technician in the decades following, married, had two boys. Gene was always very quiet but it seemed that bottling up life’s stresses took its toll. On 9/11 Uncle Gene sat in front of the tv watching the news reports and that same video clip we’ve all seen. They just showed it over and over. After some hours there was no additional “news” just lots of speculation and that clip over and over some more. Aunt Janice urged him to stop watching. His sons, now men with their own families, visited and asked him to take a walk with them. Uncle Gene stayed by his post, so to speak, quietly watching that tv. Around noon on 9/12 he had a massive coronary and was pronounced dead at the hospital. What a dreadful day. So many lives were affected. And for what? Because people who lived on the other side of the world were taught to have such hatred for people in America, people they never met? And how many of us now have reciprocal hatred, too?