World Trade Center

This movie is coming out next week and like all the other 9/11 movies, everyone needs to go see it. I saw a preview a few weeks ago when we went to go see Cars (which, despite sounding like a "kids movie" was a great great movie. That movie, reflects alot of what inspired me to start this blog).

As I was saying, people NEED to go see the 9/11 movies. I guess there has been at least two hollywood produced movies, Flight 93 and now World Trade Center. A & E had a movie on Flight 93 ("The flight that fought back"), and...check out or at least do a search on www.youtube.com for 9/11 movies. Now just a warning, there are many folks who think 9/11 was a set up by Bush which I violently disagree with. Those people who believe that, are kooks and dangerous. 9/11 was a plan to attack this country, by zealots who were committed to what they believed. Whether you agree with the war in Iraq or not, we are in a war against global terrorism and 9/11 was a wake up call.

In addition to seeing the 9/11 movies, you need to read the 9/11 report that government put out. They have it at Barnes and Noble, for $12. Its got an interview with Osama Bin Laden that I think ABC news did a few years ago. In that interview, Osama spelled out that he was out to kill Americans--Republican, Democrats, Christians, Atheists, the whole lot of us. It didn't matter, he was and still is intent on seeing us eliminated.

I read this week in a local blog, Juice, The Des Moines Register, that it is too early to see 9/11 movies. The blogger, a woman suggested that 9/11 is too political. Too political? Its like intensely human and intensely American. What happened that day in New York and Washington, DC was a human, American event. Everyone remembers where they were on that day. Just ask your Mom and Dad where they were when they heard JFK was shot. Go see the 9/11 movies. Flight 93 actually gave me hope that if the passengers had gotten in he cockpit sooner, they might have been able to save it. We'll never know of course but we can hope. Hope. What America offers to each of us.

I have not been to Ground Zero in New York but when i go later this year to New York, we're going as a family and we're going to find all the museums that have photos and memorials. If you're an American and you're human, you need to go and see and settle up with what 9/11 is to you. Start by going to see one of the movies.

www.united93movie.com