Captian's Log September 11th: Dominos 11 Sep 202510 Sep 2025 Like dominos all coming down; these two were first to fall. Now in the rising dust we drown, and Death free-men enthrall.These ruins here a builder crown,but will he build…
Captian's Log September 11th, 2024: Lost the Meaning 11 Sep 20247 Sep 2024 Well, it's September 11th again, and an election season. I find I have a hard time knowing what to say. We mourn a tragedy that has lost any cohesive story…
Captian's Log September 11th, 2023 11 Sep 2023 It is 9/11, and I really did forget. It wasn't until I got to work this morning and heard an announcement commemorating the day that I realized what day it…
Captian's Log September 11th: Dread 11 Sep 202210 Sep 2022 I have, with a certain sense of dread, been awaiting today. Our country seems so divided, and the divisions appear dogmatic. I look around and wonder if there is room…
Captian's Log September 11th: How Long, O Lord? 11 Sep 202110 Sep 2021 I remember waking up twenty years ago, sitting in front of the television, trying to make sense of things. People were dead, innocent, noncombatants. Our nation was going to war.…
Captian's Log September 11th: One Morning 11 Sep 2020 I woke up one morning. I must never forget how I woke up that morning, and what I met. I woke up one morning, rubbing my eyes, sleepy in the…
Captian's Log September 11th: What Do We Remember? 11 Sep 2019 Every year, it seems, September 11th becomes less important. Once the whole day was given over to remembrance, then it became a short hour. Today I barely spent half of…
Captian's Log September 11th: Never Forget 11 Sep 2018 In reading a great American poet named Anne Bradstreet, I am sore reminded our hope is not built upon castles and bulwarks, or upon any of these passing shadows, and…
Captian's Log The Comedy of Evil 11 Sep 2017 It’s a somber day for America, a black anniversary. This year it snuck up on me, and somehow, waking up this morning, it just became another part of my day.…