Day 72 marked the 12th
anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Though I did not lose
anyone to the attacks, it still affected me and my community heavily. The town
in which I grew up resides 50 miles from Washington DC, and many of our
citizens worked in and around the Pentagon. There were many people in my town
that lost someone they knew or knew of to those attacks. A family friend had
been transferred out of the Pentagon two months before the attack and the
occupant of his old office died in the attacks. It could just have easily been
him. My mother was abroad in Cairo during the attacks and for over a week my
father was concerned that we might never see my mother again. So as I went
through Day 72, this attack weighed heavily on my mind as I’m sure it did many
other citizens of my country.
I often wonder if the hobbits of the
Shire long remembered the War of the Ring, or if it faded into the background
like so much tended to do within that culture. I am sure the peoples of Gondor
and Rohan certainly remembered the wars, but their lands bore the scars of
conflict more acutely than the Shire did. However, the purging of the Shire and
the aftermath of the war remain in books to come and I shouldn’t be jumping to
far ahead.
From the mountain with sorrow,
~ Daisy Buttons
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