September 12

It was a very emotional day yesterday. The act of writing down my feelings helped some even though it was just shouting into the dark. I spoke with The Wife last night. She had been amazed all along at my reaction to the events of 9/11, how I seemed unshaken by them. Was I just bottling the emotions up only to have them burst open five years later? I’m not sure but I think I put my emotions aside back then so I could concentrate on the intellectual aspects of 9/11 without my emotions clouding the issues. I really, really wanted to understand what happened, why it happened, and what America should do about it. Unfortunately, things aren’t any clearer now than they were then.