Work for Justice.

Due to the cancelation of the Cincinnati Reds game tonight, I have the night off from work. Kind of a weird feeling considering I'm always working on Monday nights. No complaints here though, lucky for you I have time to blog. I'll try to keep blogging in the near future but I'm not going to make any promises.

I'm not exactly sure where I want to go with this entry. It has been months since I've blogged. I thought about giving my thoughts on my sports teams from the past months but that's too much to cover. I decided to go with the flow with this one, just write out my thoughts; my apologies if this is just a bunch of scrambled thoughts.

September 11th will always be a day that none of you will ever forget, myself included. Not to rub it in, or gloat about how bad my day was but September 11th was especially bad for me because that was the day we buried my great grandmother. While only being 10 years old at the time, I still remember the day being awful. Cowards attacking the United States and I said my final goodbyes to the nicest person I had ever known.

Through all the tears that were shed that day, despite all that happened, my 5th grade little league baseball team still had practice that night. I couldn't understand why I had to go to practice, I didn't want to. Terrorists were in the midst of attacking our great country and my great grandma was no longer around. I remember asking my dad a couple days after the terrible day why exactly we had baseball practice, why didn't we cancel it due to what went on that day? He explained to me that if we stopped what we were doing then the terrorists would have succeeded in their goal, their goal of making us live in fear.

While I have a very good memory, there are very few days I remember exactly what I did every second of that day. What I ate, what closes I wore, who I talked to and all of those meaningless details. Unfortunately two of those days were very tragic days for me. September 11th, and the day that took my best friends dads life. I know it was only yesterday but you can add that to the small list of days where I remember exactly what I did all day. For those of you who know, I like to tweet. So last night when I was at a, social gathering, I happened to pull up twitter and noticed a of couple strange 'tweets.' One saying there's a immediate press conference by the white house happening within the next twenty minutes. I turned on the TV but found nothing. Luckily for twitter, I was kept informed of the news. I kept reading Osama bin Laden was dead but I was skeptical at first because of the people reporting it. I asked a couple other people I was with if they heard anything about this but no one had. Once again I flipped on the TV and there it was, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks was dead.

Honestly it didn't settle in at first, partly because I was with a large group of people who were in a different state of mind. I left the house to return to my own where my roommates and I flipped on CNN. For three hours we watched the news, looked at people's facebooks and twitters. Everyone was talking about the fact that Osama was dead. We blasted America music and lit up cigars. It was a time to celebrate. Will this change anything in the war on terror? I have no idea honestly, I don't think anyone does. What I do hope is that is provides closure for all of the lives lost on that miserable September day.

My great grandma, all of those innocent people in the trade center towers, all of those firemen who risked their lives to save complete strangers, all of those soldiers who ahve lost their lives protecting us, those were the people I was thinking about last night.

Justice was served last night and I hope this is the start of better things for the United States of America.

Quote of the blog: "If you want peace, work for justice."

one of the coolest photo's, ever:

That is the Truth.