The Senseless & The Senselessness

   Yesterday marked 24 years since Islamic terrorists hijacked 4 passenger planes and used them to commit suicide attacks that decimated the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, damaged the Pentagon building in Virginia, and sent a Boeing 757-200 into a field in Shanksville, Pa. The four co-ordinated attacks resulted in the deaths of 3,192 innocent people and injuries to as many as 25,000.  

   I intended to post this memorial of the event yesterday, but other events transpired that gave me pause, and so I decided to wait until today.

   This memorial features the 9/11 memorial that the people of Columbus, Nebraska erected in 2003 to honor the victims of the attack. I was in Columbus a few months back and chanced upon it in the town's Pawnee Park.

   I was struck by the stark simplicity of the memorial, which (to me) rendered it incredibly effective as far as memorials to man's inhumanity to man goes.