today is a hard day. i can't really say that i knew anyone who was personally involved in 9/11, but it's a hard day. it's a day where i remember that people who didn't know me or my fellow countrymen chose to hate us...devised to kill many of us...and to invoke fear and pain. that's really hard for me. i don't understand it. it's pure and unadulterated evil. evil is all around us...we choose to call it many other things, but it's all around us every day. evil doesn't show it's face often here in the states like it did on september 11, 2001... but my friend, we americans remain. we remain and push forward. we strive to be better and do more and honor and remember those who lost their lives and loved ones that terrible day......and we move forward, remembering the pain of that evil. not letting the pain take us down, but bring us to a new level of understanding. we push on...we persevere. we build the freedom tower...and these men do it with ...