9/11 Five years later.

This morning I thought about where I was when the first jet hit the WTC towers. I was on my way to work just getting off of I-10 when the announcer on WJBO said a small plane had hit one of WTC towers. By the time I arrived at work the 2nd airliner had hit. Someone had on a television and many of the women in the office were crying.

I watched in horror as the towers fell and the rest of the events that day. Of course like many I was in shock, then saddened and then came the anger. If it would have been up to me we would have nuked the middle east and turned the whole place into a glass parking lot. Thank God George Bush had that decision and not me.

I tried to call my wife but she's a school teacher and they were on lockdown. My kids were all in school. I called my parents to make sure they knew. It is a day I'll never forget much like the JFK assassination.

As I look back on that day and remember I'm again saddened but still mad. I surfed the net this afternoon and watched some video of that day. I had never seen the video of the people jumping to their deaths. It is enough to make you sick.

Tonight what President Bush said described my feelings well.

"We face an enemy determined to bring death and suffering into our homes. America did not ask for this war, and every American wishes it were over. So do I. But the war is not over -- and it will not be over until either we or the extremists emerge victorious. If we do not defeat these enemies now, we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons. We are in a war that will set the course for this new century -- and determine the destiny of millions across the world."

I wish it were over. I wish it would have never happened. I wish we didn't have to fight the islamic extremists to save western civilization but we do. I'm afraid that without America's determination the western world would be doomed. I only hope that we can finish this before the appeasers win.