My first response is “why we dredging that up again?!” But the reality is that it never left, only my own ignorant mind letting the painful thoughts regress, and therefore rendering me useless and unremorseful.

September Eleven Two Thousand One, shortly after Eight am... A man comes running in the Deli I am working in since Six am, serving coffee and bagels for the morning rush in Hackensack, NJ.

He says “DO YOU HAVE A TV IN HERE?! A PLANE JUST HIT THE TWIN TOWERS!!!“  To which my response was.  “YEAH RIGHT, EVEN WITH NO RADAR AN IDIOT COULDN'T MISS A BUILDING OF THAT SIZE” (as I kinda rolled my eyes at him)

Well, we did have a TV, and I saw the terrible truth.  As the Second plane hit, I knew from that moment, this was not some irresponsible pilot making a fool of his airline.

To this day, since this event, the reception on my TV has never been back to normal, and neither have I.  The thought of someone jumping from a building to “save themselves from a worse fate of burning” makes me sick to my stomach!  It’s almost like a decision from the movie “Saw” Where people are put in horrific and painful situations, and if they don’t pass the test of  horror number one, than horror number two comes at them full swing!

I have friends where two years later are getting phone calls because a family members DNA tested body part was found. 

What is this garbage?
WHERE WAS GOD, WAS HE OUT GOLFING ON JUPITER THAT TUESDAY MORNING?!
Well I do know one thing, I can’t explain the grand scheme of things, and I don’t wanna try and figure it out!
“He makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust” (Matt five)

I can’t leave my house now with a gun and cap Osama-b-l in the head, and even if I could, there is something bigger than me, bigger than the total Two Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Six Lives Extinguished so quickly.

Vengeance will be paid in full when this is all laid to rest.  I may not see this in my lifetime, but I’m ok with that.  I'm only one man of almost Six point Seven Billion people here on Planet Earth, but my FAITH & TRUST is in GOD who is  control ultimately through all! Without that Peace of Mind and ability to release the Anger and Responsibility to him, my life would be a train wreck.

NINE ELEVEN IS THIS GENERATIONS “JFK”
Some things we have to realize that we have ZERO PERSONAL CONTROL over and that’s where HOPE and FAITH IN JESUS comes from!

My heart is torn from this, and nothing like it before or after has affected me so deeply.  I remember this story a friend passed on to me.
While standing next to a woman at the bus stop in North Bergen NJ, a woman weeping as SHE WATCHED ACROSS THE RIVER the first Tower falling, because her daughter worked there.  I can never erase that mental image from my mind, nor would I want to!  But all I can do in moving forward, is daily show my LOVE, PATIENCE and TOLERANCE TO EVERY PERSON I MEET.

At its roots, THIS WAS A HATE CRIME, and I will not forget that every RACE, RELIGION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, & POINT OF VIEW comes from an individual that deserves nothing but the respect and personal attention we would want ourselves.

HATE is bred, learned and taught us by association, and we can all stop that by standing up for those who are afraid to stand for themselves, and HONOR THOSE INNOCENT VICTIMS AND HEROES THAT DIED THAT DAY BY SPREADING PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING!

I will use this beautiful and accurate art as A REMINDER TO DO MY PART in this world as a light against Hate and Ignorance.

Daniel Sahagian