September 11, from a continent away and ten years later...

Yes, we observed Sept 11 out here on the "left side" of the country too.

( Miscellaneous thoughts from a West Coaster under the cut - beware the rant )

And that, my friends, is why I grieve on 9/11: I grieve the loss of life in passenger airplanes used as weapons by men with no morals, in the WTC and Pentagon which were used as targets; and I grieve the loss of the American military and the American spirit in general as a result in the decade that has followed.